by Mario Benedetti · Alianza · tapa dura · ISBN 9788413620923
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This poetic anthology by Mario Benedetti, selected by the author himself, offers a panoramic sample of his most substantial and well-known poetic work. Benedetti, recognized for his novels, short stories, and plays, also occupies a prominent place in poetry, where his creations have become popular songs. His verses revolve around the approach to everyday language, the construction of an epic of the everyday, the incorporation of the social and the political, love and humor.
Mario Benedetti Farrugia, was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages, he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world, he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century.
