Libros de Mario Benedetti (3 libros)

In this collection of short stories there are issues such as the anxious await by employees for new management that will approve salary increases, the calm awakening of a man on his day off from work, and a woman telling a man that she is the mother of his child. These most simple anecdotes of daily life are reflected with such splendor and vitality through Benedetti’s concise and clear prose.

A selection of poetry, published between 1995 and 2001, features poems that later were made into songs that appear in both versions, and includes works presented in reverse chronological order, with the idea that the reader, by having access to this work through the newest and nearest door, will soon be tempted to open other doors, as if doing an inventory.

De las varias y buenas novelas de Mario Benedetti, LA TREGUA es la que ha alcanzado mayor favor del público. La cotidianidad gris y rutinaria marcada por la frustración y la ausencia de perspectivas de la clase media urbana impregna las páginas de esta novela, que, adoptando la forma de un diario personal, relata un breve periodo de la vida de un empleado viudo, próximo a la jubilación, cuya existencia se divide entre la oficina, la casa, el café y una precaria vida familiar dominada por una difícil relación con unos hijos ya adultos. Una inesperada relación amorosa, que parece...