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This book brings together a collection of the most celebrated poems by Mario Benedetti, a poet who has achieved what only a handful of others have accomplished-an unbreakable bond and a source of inspiration for its readers. For all those who remember these works, many have become part of their life memories-whispered on a loved one's ear, quoted when declaring the love felt for that special person, or used as the inspiration when creating a love sonnet-others have become songs or even graffiti. Description in Spanish: Este libro reune los más celebrados poemas de Mario Benedetti. Muchos estan a flor de labio en la gente que los recuerda, los repite al oido de la persona amada, los cita en sus declaraciones romanticas o los tiene en la mente a la hora de garabatear un verso; otros se han convertido en canciones o hasta en grafittis. Pocos poetas han logrado establecer un lazo semejante con sus lectores y darles palabras para expresar lo que sienten..
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"Days and Nights succeeds not only because of its socio-political authenticity and lyrical style but because of its interweaving of anger and tenderness, elation and sorrow."
--The Nation

Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony, and occasional humor, Galeano pays loving tribute to the courage and determination of those who continued to believe in, and fight for, a more human existence. The Lannan Foundation awarded the 1999 Cultural Prize for Freedom to Eduardo Galeano, in recognition of those "whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry and expression."

Originally published in Cuba, Days and Nights of Love and War won the Casa de las Américas prize in 1978..
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The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts. Part I is a rich evocation of life in a working-class neighborhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the mid-1930s, as seen through the eyes of Moishe, the child of Polish-Jewish immigrants In what is a daily routine, Moishe’s father waits for the postman at the window, always hoping for news of his family from the Old Country. Don Isaac’s relatives are prisoners of the Nazis, so all he can read Moishe and his mother is letters from before. Interspersed among the child narrator’s reminiscences are the letters those relatives might have written, bearing witness to their suffering. Letters that never came.

In Part II, we find Moishe in the dungeons of the military junta that governed his country through the 1970s and part of the 1980s. Held in isolation, tortured and starving, he takes refuge in the world of his imagination, composing another letter that never came—a letter to his father that embodies his own quest for identity—while his parents, penniless, are evicted from their house and stigmatized as the mother and father of a "subversive."

Part III of Rosencof’s text is largely a meditation on the redemptive power of the word, real and imagined. This poignant, humane work, as Uruguayan and Jewish as it is universal, links the cruelty of the Holocaust to that of the Uruguayan military and the resistance of Hitler’s victims to his own..
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Repression, Exile, and Democracy, translated from the Spanish, is the first work to examine the impact of dictatorship on Uruguyan culture. Some of Uruguay's best-known poets, writers of fiction, playwrights, literary critics and social scientists participate in this multidisciplinary study, analyzing how varying cultural expressions have been affected by conditions of censorship, exile and "insilio" (internal exile), torture, and death.
The first section provides a context for the volume, with its analyses of the historical, political, and social aspects of the Uruguayan experience. The following chapters explore various aspects of cultural production, including personal experiences of exile and imprisonment, popular music, censorship, literary criticism, return from exile, and the role that culture plays in redemocratization.
This book's appeal extends well beyond the study of Uruguay to scholars and students of the history and culture of other Latin American nations, as well as to fields of comparative literature and politics in general.

Contributors. Hugo Achugar, Alvarro Barros-Lémez, Lisa Block de Behar, Amanda Berenguer, Hiber Conteris, José Pedro Díaz, Eduardo Galeano, Edy Kaufman, Leo Masliah, Carina Perelli, Teresa Porzecanski, Juan Rial, Mauricio Rosencof, Jorge Ruffinelli, Saúl Sosonowski, Martin Weinstein, Ruben Yáñez
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Here is the first full-length, critical study of Eduardo Galeano, born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1940, author of the monumental trilogy Memory of Fire, and of the ground-breaking Open Veins of Latin America

Part political biography, part cultural theory, this book examines events that have shaped Galeano's life-from his close personal friendship with Allende, through the dictatorships in Uruguay and Argentina that forced him into exile, to the ongoing relationship between Galeano and Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Chiapas rebellion. The political effect of his work has been compared to that of Noam Chomsky.

Daniel Fischlin teaches literature at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Martha Nandorfy is a distinguished Hispanist scholar teaches at Concordia University, Montreal..
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A political dissident who was jailed and tortured by Uruguay’s military regime, Carlos Liscano movingly recounts those experiences in Truck of Fools. His narrative, a mosaic of brief, powerful vignettes, offers unique insight into the physical and psychological plight of the prisoner, as well as into the mindset of his tormentors. Liscano survived these horrors to become a gifted writer and Uruguay’s most well known novelist..
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on October 8, 1998. The length of the article is 808 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La iconografía de lo terrible. (exposición del artista uruguayo Ignacio Iturria)(TT: The iconography of the terrible) (TA: exhibition of the work of Uruguayan artist Ignacio Iturria)
Author: Roberto Vallarino
Publication:Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: October 8, 1998
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: v45 Issue: n2364 Page: p66(1)

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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on February 8, 2002. The length of the article is 674 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "Enloqueció" el uruguayo Abreu.(Sebastián Abreu, jugador de fútbol)(TT: Uruguayan Abreu "went crazy".)(TA: Sebastian Abreu, soccer player)(Artículo Breve)
Publication:Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 8, 2002
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 8 Issue: 467 Page: 22

Article Type: Artículo Breve

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