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Esta Mañana/Montevideanos

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Dos obras clave en la trayectoria literaria de Mario Benedetti. Esta mañana (1949) y Montevideanos (1959) son dos recopilaciones en las que se recogen sus mejores relatos, los más representativos, los que más claramente han definido al autor ante varias generaciones de lectores. De hecho, no son obras idénticas. En la primera, el autor es muy joven: ya posee un lenguaje propio, desde luego, pero también exhibe hasta con cierto orgullo literario las huellas de la influencia ajena, los testimonios de la tradición. Montevideanos, en cambio, expresa ya con toda exactitud la voz necesaria y personal de Mario Benedetti. No puede extrañarnos, por tanto, que constituyera el primer gran éxito del autor en el campo de la narrativa.

272 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1985

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Mario Benedetti

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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.

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