Antologa potica Benedetti. Seleccin y prlogo de Joan Manuel Serrat / Benedettis Poetic Anthology. Selection and Prologue,Used

SERRAT LEE A BENEDETTIUna antologa personal con motivo del centenario del autor uruguayo, el poeta contemporneo en espaol ms querido por varias generaciones de lectores.Yo soy poeta / seores: / y usted debe saber que los poetas / vivimos a la vuelta de este mundo.No es fcil escoger lo ms representativo entre la extensa obra de Benedetti, pero confo en que en esta antologa estn representados todos los Benedettis que Mario cargaba en su mochila el oficinista rutinario, el montevideano de clase media, el periodista comprometido, el viajero curioso, el militante de la patria domstica, el exiliado y el desexiliado, y tambin el intelectual parcial, el luchador poltico y, por supuesto, el poeta minucioso y trabajador que nunca dej de ser, con la esperanza de que esta seleccin pueda resultarle tan til al lector familiarizado con el mundo literario del poeta uruguayo como a aquel que llegue por primera vez a sus versos.Mario Benedetti ha sido uno de los escritores ms fecundos y populares de Amrica Latina. Un hombre de aspecto frgil y sencillo, de gesto y voz mesurada, que acerc a la gente su palabra despojada de solemnidad. Escribi, a contramano de las modas imperantes y de la crtica, historias que son las peripecias del hombre medio. Visit todos los gneros literarios: la novela, el relato, el teatro, pero fue la poesa su gnero predilecto, el que marc ms intensamente su vocacin y el ms abundante y popular de toda su obra. Probablemente Benedetti sea el poeta ms ledo en nuestro idioma y, con toda seguridad, el ms cantado. Joan Manuel SerratENGLISH DESCRIPTIONSERRAT READS TO BENEDETTIA personal anthology to mark the centenary of the Uruguayan author, the mostloved, contemporary poet in Spanish by many generations.I am a poet / gentlemen: / and you should know that poets / live around the world.It is not easy to choose the most representative among Benedetti's extensive work, but I trust that this anthology represents all the Benedettis that Mario carried in his backpack the routine office worker, the middleclass Montevideo man, the committed journalist, the curious traveler, the lover of the homeland, the exiled and the repatriated, as well as the partial intellectual, the political fighter and, of course, the meticulous and hardworking poet who never ceased to be , in the hope that this selection may prove as useful to the reader familiar with the Uruguayan poets literary world as to the one whos reading his verses for the first time.Mario Benedetti has been one of the most fruitful and popular writers in Latin America. A man with a fragile and simple appearance, with a measured gesture and voice, who brought his word to the people, stripped of solemnity. He wrote, against the prevailing fashions and criticism, stories that are the adventures of the average man. He visited all literary genres: the novel, the short story, the play, but poetry was his favorite genre, the one that most intensely marked his vocation and the most abundant and popular of all his work. Benedetti is probably the most widely read poet in our language and, certainly, the most sung. ' Joan Manuel Serrat '