by Mario Benedetti translated by W. Nick Hill, Flaurie S. Imberman, Louise Popkin, Gareth Price, Maria Proser, Matthew Proser, Tim Richards, Hardie St. Martin, David Unger, Daniel Balderston, Rachel Belash, JoAnne Engelbert, Darwin J. Flakoll, James Graham and Maya Gross edited by Claribel Alegría and Darwin J. Flakoll
Northwestern University Press, 1997 Paper: 978-1-880684-39-9 Library of Congress Classification PQ8519.B292A23 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 863
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This collection includes the best of renowned Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti's stories from over 40 years of publishing. In these stories of powerful sudden impact, Benedetti plumbs with deep psychological insight both the dreams and frustrations of the middle-class in a bureaucratic society, as well as the pain and disorientation of political exile.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Mario Benedetti was born in Uruguay in 1920. Following a 1973 coup d'état, Benedetti's work was banned. From 1973 to 1985, he lived in exile for various periods in Argentina, Peru, Cuba, and Spain. Writing from exile, he was able to inform the world about tragedies happening in his home country. Today, his more than 80 books of poetry, fiction, essays, and drama are well-renowned around the globe, having been published in over 20 languages. A member of Generation '45, his work had notable influence on Uruguayan literary and cultural life. He died in 2009.
REVIEWS
"Benedetti blends introspection, elegy, and sly humor in piquant revelations of the terrors lurking in 'ordinary' people and things."
—Kirkus Reviews
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"A brilliant fingerprint of the city of Montevideo."
—Eduardo Galeano— -
"An extremely acute sense of [the] irony of daily existence has made his work compelling and often hilarious reading."
—David William Foster, Books Abroad — -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Budget
Iriarte Family
Lead Us into Temptation
Requiem over Tea
The Night of the Ugly Ones
The Widowers of Margaret Sullavan
The Demitasse Cups
The Attic
The Stars and You
Sic Transit Gloria
The Price of Rage
Jules and Jim
Fable With Pope
Miss Amnesia
Perhaps Beyond Repair
Five Years of Life
The Other Side
Just like Greenwich
A Note for Paula
Just Kidding
Post Mortem
Fidelities
A Bolivian With an Outlet to the Sea
Isosceles Triangle
Maison Lucrèce
The Williamses and the Peabodys
Blood Pact
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