Memory and Hope

ESSAY. DESTINO, 2004. 96 PAGES.

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? In this accurate message to young people, Mario Benedetti speaks of the need to fight against conformism, consumerism and the capitalist American way of death that is trying to impose itself globally throughout the planet. And also of the need to preserve the rebelliousness, the idealism, the vitality, the desire to live and to change the world. In short, not to be defeated by boredom or defeatism and to maintain dreams and hope

PUBLISHED BY: Spanish DESTINO / ALFAGUARA