Mario Benedetti (full name: Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia) was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world. He is considered one of Latin America's most important 20th-century writers.
Benedetti was a member of the 'Generation of 45', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement and also wrote in the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha from 1945 until it was forcibly closed by the military government in 1973, and was its literary director from 1954. From 1973 to 1985 he lived in exile, and returned to Uruguay in March 1983 following the restoration of democracy.
Considero que no es un autor cuya forma de narrar me conmueva, lo que provocó que no pudiera sentirme interpelada por ninguno de los textos y poemas que se encuentran en ésta compilación.
Es un hermoso libro de poesías, algunas me han llegado tanto en mi corazón porque me hizo acordar un par de cosas que he sentido en mi vida. Como Táctica y Estrategia o Defensa de la Alegría.