by Mario Benedetti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495594020
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«Gracias por el fuego» is a novel by Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti, published by Clarín in paperback, 206 pages, in Spanish.
The plot revolves around Ramón Budiño, a businessman confronted with his father, a powerful and corrupt entrepreneur, and the moral inheritance of that bond. The novel is a chronicle of collective powerlessness and a reflection on alienation, class struggle, and the search for identity in Uruguayan society of the time.
This edition is volume 9 of Clarín's Biblioteca de la Literatura Universal collection, published in 2000.
For readers of Latin American novels and narrative with social and political background, with an interest in 20th-century Uruguayan literature.
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.
