Mario Benedetti
URUGUAY, 1920 - 2009
From the same generation as Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes and José Donoso, Mario Benedetti is one of the relatively few writers to have successfully combined a sense of aesthetic mission with a political conscience. His novels are at once some of the most profound and most towering literary portraits of Latin America society as a whole.
One of Latin America's most respected, popular and prolific writers, who excelled as a novelist, poet, playwright and essayist while immersing himself in the region's political struggles.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"With so little of Benedetti's work to be found in English, the posthumous publication of a recently translated collection of his short stories is a welcome and well-deserved addition to what remains."
JEREMY GARBER on The Rest is Jungle and Other Stories
"The Rest is Jungle is a remarkable showcase for the work of a writer who sought to speak of love, power and commitment as directly and passionately as possible."
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By Mario Benedetti
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POETRY, 2020
This book pays homage to Mario Benedetti, the man and artist, on what would be his hundredth birthday. The poems selected for the present commemorative edition were written during different...
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POETRY, 2020
‘I am a poet / gentlemen: / and you should know that poets / live around the corner from this world.' ‘It's hardly a easy task selecting just a few of the most representative...
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Witness. The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti
POETRY, 2012
Witness is the first collection of Benedetti's poetry in English translation to draw on thirty of his published collections from 1948 - 2009 thereby presenting the full range of his poetic voice...
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SHORT STORIES, 2007
Do our own footsteps betray us? What is the difference between an intentional suicide and a vocational one? Posing question such as these, Living Deliberately reflects on life.The life of...
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ESSAY, 2004
What can an octogenarian poet say to young people? What suggestions and ideas can a man of letters contribute to the generations that today are making their way in a complex and paradoxical world?...
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POETRY, 2004
This work includes all the poems that the author published in book form between 1995 and 2001, and which originally formed the volumes El olvido está lleno de memoria, La vida ese...
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SHORT STORIES, 2003
In the pages of this book restless ghosts inhabit, revolvers are fired and dreams dream. Within the ink of his letters hide the fantasy, the desire and the pain of characters that oscillate...
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POETRY, 1999
Enclosing in 17 syllables (with predetermined divisions) a sensation, a doubt, an opinion, a feeling, a landscape, and even a brief anecdote, began as a game. But little by little one begins to...
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SHORT STORIES, 1999
Time Mailbox covers the different forms of the encounter: the nostalgic memory of a lost love, the rumors of other times, the unanswered calls, the painfully recovered identity, the mirrors that...
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POETRY, 1997
Mario Benedetti returns with a series of poems and short prose pieces through which he opens a luminous parenthesis in his work. Closer than ever, the beloved Uruguayan poet offers intimate texts...
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NOVEL, 1996
What is left of the country of one's memory upon their return from a lengthy exile? Scaffolding tells the tale of the experiences and missteps of Javier Montes who returns to Montevideo after...
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POETRY. 1995
“Love is one of the defining elements of life. Whether it is brief or lasting, spontaneous or carefully constructed it is the epitome of human relationships.” MARIO BENEDETTI...
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NON FICTION, 1995
A fundamental author of Spanish-language literature, Mario Benedetti combines the sensibility of a novelist and poet with the taste and precision of an essayist and the mature reflective capacity...
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SHORT STORIES, 1994
This compilation of short stories prove that Mario Benedetti is one of the great storytellers of our language and of our century.
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POETRY, 1993
This first edition of Inventary Two includes all the poems that I published in book form between 1986 and 1991: Preguntas al azar (1986), Yesterday y mañana (1988), Despistes y...
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POETRY, 1993
To love, to fight, to work, to die, everything is a motif of poetry for Mario Benedetti. Every small situation of daily life deserves a song, a celebration of the constant surprise of existing....
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NOVEL, 1992
Claudio goes back in time to when he was five years old to recount the anecdotes, people and historical events that defined his life. Benedetti’s gaze lingers on anecdotes that stimulate...
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NON FICTION, 1991
In Reality and Word , Mario Benedetti offers us an approach to the great themes of contemporary reflection, situated in the rich and contradictory reality of Latin America, as well as an...
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SHORT STORIES, 1989
A book that summarizes Benedetti's modes of writing and at the same time constitutes a sort of private conversation between the author and his longtime readers. It brings together stories,...
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POETRY, 1984
The prestigious Uruguayan poet and novelist, who has managed to obtain the consensus of both critics and the public, shows us through these pages, in an organic combination of poetry and prose,...
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NOVEL, 1982
Spring in a Broken Mirror is a direct, painful account of a divided society, one fractured by repression and authoritarianism, and tries to build a bridge between two regions – Uruguay...
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THEATER, 1979
Pedro and the Captain , which has shocked the world with its crudeness and realism, is a denunciation against torture (one of the worst ignominies practiced by the mechanisms of power) and a...
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STORIES, 1977
With and without yearning tells various stories united by a theme very familiar to the readers of this known Uruguayan author. Solitude, communication, love, heartbreak, and time join worry for...
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NOVEL IN VERSE, 1971
In Juan Angel's Birthday , a novel in verse, Mario Benedetti gives shape to the most experimental of all his books. The protagonist, Osvaldo Puente (who later becomes Juan Ángel, his...
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SHORT STORIES, 1968
In the city, men and women love and hate each other; they die, survive, deteriorate and are reborn; they smile, cry; they get lost and return through paths often traveled, or discover new paths...
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NOVEL, 1965
This story of ignominy and death is also an account of collective impotence. A grotesque prophecy confirmed by harsh reality ends in the murder of a father in a rite of purification....
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NOVEL, 1960
Martin Santomé, a widower with three children, begins, on the eve of retirement, to record his gray and unspectacular life in a journal. The daily life of routine at the office and in a...
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SHORT STORIES, 1959
Portraits of a city through endearing characters. From an intimate and at the same time universal perspective, Mario Benedetti portrays a city, the Uruguayan capital, through endearing...
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NOVEL, 1953
'This novel is a jewel ... one of those books that enters the soul, which it is impossible not to be conquered by. It is a masterpiece like few others' Huffington Post Miguel and Alicia fall...
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