by Mario Benedetti · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447302505
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«Gracias por el fuego» is the novel by Mario Benedetti, published by RBA in hardcover (192 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows Ramón Budiño, a businessman who contemplates an extreme act against the figure of his father, an unscrupulous entrepreneur. In that conflict, Benedetti addresses morality, corruption, alienation and identity, offering a critical look at Uruguayan society and family relations crossed by power.
The novel was published in 1965; this edition is from 1983 and belongs to the Narrativa Actual collection, Autores de Lengua Española series.
A work for readers of fiction in Spanish interested in Uruguayan literature and novels of social criticism.
Mario Benedetti Farrugia, was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages, he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world, he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century.
