by Mario Benedetti · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420618999
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«Cuentos» is an anthology of short stories by Mario Benedetti, published by Alianza in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Fifteen stories in which Benedetti observes with irony and closeness the contradictions of middle-class urban characters. His direct, precise prose combines tenderness and cruelty, humour and depth, condensing in a few pages small stories of everyday life.
Anthology of stories selected by Benedetti himself; the original edition appeared in 1983 within Literatura y Ficción.
Recommended for university students and readers of short Hispano-American fiction.
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.
