by Mario Benedetti · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420421483
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Gracias por el fuego» is the novel by Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti published by Alfaguara in paperback (292 pages, in Spanish).
Ramón Budiño plans to kill his father, a corrupt politician who embodies the worst of a country. The protagonist's hesitation serves Benedetti to portray a society marked by caudillismo and fear, and his frustration becomes a metaphor for a class that shirks its responsibility. A novel of characters and Uruguayan social criticism of the twentieth century.
The novel was originally published in 1965 and is framed within Benedetti's social and political narrative.
For readers of contemporary Latin American narrative and social fiction with an interest in plots of political criticism.
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.
