Mario Benedetti left us

"His death is a tear for Hispanic literature.'s Work will always be Mario", Mauricio Rosencoff very difficult to ignore the physical disappearance of the great Uruguayan writer, who won many for its simplicity and depth of texts messages, in addition to the poetry that we shared in life. Ana Maria Shua, short story writer and novelist, says of him, "His poetry never forgave him to achieve such popularity. Perhaps it was the last great poet of the people. Shone in all genres. He was a writer and an endearing person. In its readers aroused emotion and tenderness. " María Rosa Lojo, novelist and critic comments: "It is the author of a vast, in narrative, poetry and essays, and even theater. I think the Argentines always associated with the truce, which gave rise to a film as iconic as the novel itself. " Mauricio Rosencoff, playwright, said: "All their literature was an affirmation of national identity. Benedetti was a simple man, committed, supportive, a soul mate. I want to emphasize his integrity, transparency and good." Benedetti, was considered "a poet who also writes short stories and novels," believed that poetry was "an outpouring of privacy referred unwittingly to the reader.

In poetry there is an exchange of intimacy intimacy, "as the nation in 2001." I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder, "he wrote, and synthesized, perhaps unwittingly, the core of his poetry and prose accessible language, syntactic simplicity, the universal experience of love, forgetfulness, resistance, boredom, loneliness, fulfillment. When they bury me please / do not forget my pen, "he wrote haikus Rincon de Benedetti, a book of poems by Japanese metric rigid published in 1998. His atheistic view of life ("I believe in a personal God, which is the conscience") included a time and space to finally uninterrupted worldly only engage in writing.

He died at age 88 after a long illness that imprisons him in Montevideo, Uruguay, by this we said that we are transient beings, we do not know the day that we have to go, or how we will, simply knowing how to enjoy every minute of life immensely given to us. It is very true what says the newspaper La Nacion of Buenos Aires, who throughout his intense and fruitful literary, poetic and constructed a narrative that won a mass audience and continued in popular songs, film and the messages of love and strength of several generations. His political activism led to the exile experience, which marked his life and literature, as well as her love story with Luz López Alegre, who died in 2006 after 60 years of life together and left a deep sadness and not leave . Author of more than 80 novels, essays, books of short stories and poems, was translated into over 20 languages, but managed to live off their art only 20 years after publishing his first book. His popularity, fueled by a poetry and prose about universal themes, in a tone of complicity with the reader, earned a reputation for crowds and several international awards.

In his novels, explored how few the depths of human nature and unique traits portrayed the middle class, while not hide their political commitment to leftist movements. It also reminds us, called Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Mario Benedetti was born on September 14, 1920 in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay, in a family of Italian origin, chemical and winemaker father and mother had not finished primary school. His childhood and adolescence marked by economic difficulties, moves and irregular schooling, which included passing through a severe German school. After four years, the family moved to Montevideo, the city that never stopped writing Benedetti, but live elsewhere. At 14 he began to work selling auto parts and then was stenographer, bookseller and carpets, public employee for five years and a real estate agent for 15 years. His life was linked to Buenos Aires on several occasions. Between 1938 and 1941, lived in this city, where he worked as a stenographer in an editorial in which Piazza San Martin, where he regularly read, decided to become a writer.

His first book of poems was the eve indelible, published in 1945. Back to Montevideo, began his journalistic career. Marginalia magazine directed, participated in numerous key publication called "Generation 45", and from 1954 to 1960 he held three times the literary director of Start, the most influential weekly political and cultural life of Uruguay, which closed in 1974 . Office Poems (1956) marked his first public impact in poetry began in Uruguay and the increasing diffusion of his work. He began then to shape what would become his trademark: its simple, conversational, direct, unequivocal taste Montevideo, but at the same time, its universal themes, and his search for complicity with the reader. Only from 1969, Benedetti was able to live in journalism and his books. The Cuban Revolution, ten years before, had profoundly affected his career. Made several trips to that country, which was also one of the destinations of their exile and worked in the Casa de las Americas, an influential Cuban cultural institution. Among his highlights; Montevideanos (1959), Forgotten Memories (1988) and The Future of my past (2003) were some of his volumes of short stories.

Among his novels, is highlighted by the fire (1965), with a broken corner Spring (1982), coffee grounds (1992) and Woods (1996). His poetic work is extensive: an inventory (1963), two (1994) and three (2003), Burn the ships (1969), Wind in exile (1981), The solitude of Babel (1991), The world I breathe (2001 ), Memory and Hope (2004), which does not sing songs (2006) are among his most celebrated books. Indeed, like all great, especially those that stand out for having fully identified with its values, mission, commitment to share their wisdom, sensitivity points, humility, his departure invites us to recognize their work, the performance of their mission. Not surprisingly, therefore, that the Uruguayan poet Rafael Courtuasí recalled words he said Benedetti, to describe his personality: "I have no shame in being sensitive." And said: "Don Mario is far from the envy and went elsewhere. A loss is crying because she cries a friend, but also other Benedetti is being born." * Source: Diario La Nacion of Buenos Aires.