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Blood Pact & Other Storiesby Mario Benedetti
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Like many of the world's finest authors, Mario Benedetti is virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. He is, however, in Spanish-speaking countries widely considered one of the most important and beloved Latin American writers. Born in Uruguay in 1920, Benedetti has penned over 50 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama, political journalism, and criticism. Following the coup in 1973, his writing was banned, and he was forced into exile for the next 12 years. Save for a few slim books of poetry and two out-of-print novels, Blood Pact is, tragically (or criminally), the only of Benedetti's works available in English translation. The 27 tales in this collection span some 40 years of his career, and comprise one of the most exquisitely well-written arrays of short stories I've ever read, by any author, anywhere. Composed in a deft and stylish manner, Benedetti's writing is full of elegance, honesty, compassion, insight, humor, humanity, and wisdom. His stories deal in the personal, yet reflect the world his characters live within. Political repression and torture, the nuance of amorous relations, psychological exploration, the inevitability of aging and death, the frustrating inanity of bureaucracy; regardless of his subject, these stories are brilliantly composed. Blood Pact is the rarest of literary gems. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This collection — "A brilliant fingerprint of the city of Montevideo" (Eduardo Galeano) — includes the best of renowned Uruguayan writer Mane 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. In his On Arts and Professions, Benedetti wrote, "the effect of the short story is the surprise, the astonishment, the revelation". About the AuthorMario Benedetti belongs to the same generation of Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes and Jose Donoso and is one of the writers who is best able to integrate aesthetic research with political awareness. His novels are now considered an essential link for understanding the evolution of the South American novel from the seventies until today. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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