“There is nothing more foolish than to give Caesar what is Caesar’s” or “Stones turned into faces.” These are some of the notes Mario Benedetti (1920-2009) took while reading the book. warrior examrelated to José Perez Olivares. did as usual handwriting tab left it in the book many times. others i wrote in small notebooks and some in the text itself. Many developed ideas in their essays, while others inspired their books.
Marked by the scraps of the Uruguayan writer, this road will now come to light thanks to the Mario Benedetti Center for Ibero-American Studies. digitized this special legacy cataloging them after finding them Among more than 6,000 volumes the author’s personal library in Madrid and donated in 2006 this entity managed by Beatriz Aracil. A job that will be available from March 20 when presented at the conference the poet’s readingsOrganized by CeMaB International poetry day.
There are less than a hundred documents with these characteristics that CeMaB has managed to salvage from its funds. Between the 80s and 2006The year Benedetti returns to Uruguay, but these are of great importance. “It’s a modest document, but we’re going to include it in the material that’s already out there so it can be consulted,” says Aracil. “It was also a commitment to the Mario Benedetti Foundation because with this digitized collection Temporarily complete the author’s journey“.
one year job
The digitization work of this center, which lasted for about a year, will make these written testimonies available to the whole world, author book annotations Fundamentals of Latin American literature such as Sergio Ramírez, Mario Vargas Llosa, or Cristina Peri Rossi. “We also found several small notebooks with material inside, which we thought were for a conference, and which contained quotations from the authors.”
Beatriz Aracil draws attention to this there are “difficult” annotations. For example, something about dictatorship. “Some of the statements written by the director of the Uruguayan prison, Sergio Lydid, writer Bio-Bio, southern cross: concentration camp in Chile, his autobiography as a political prisoner”.
For CeMaB administrator, endangered literature de Benedetti is key, and these notes confirm this idea. According to him, “the fact that he is interested relatively minor writers but those who write about their dictatorship experiences or highlight certain phrases from the texts of writers they might be with began to distance himself politically, but someone with a political commitment like Vargas Llosa disapproves of a particular line of his writing”.
Although, “beyond literature of a political nature, we did not find pure political notes, Linking politics to specific texts was his way of working. For example, he literally reversed the subject of the torturer through stories, novels, or drama”.
essayist and critic
Another contribution of these annotations is, Lessons taught by Unpreserved Benedetti. “With these notes we can have Benedetti essayist and critic more broadly because some of that material was lost.” made on hotel paper”.
Beatriz Aracil says all this background shows that Benedetti’s literature “continues to be very current.”
Benedetti got it too newspaper clippings number of authors “with special interest”. These papers found envelopes or folders inside boxesContains clippings from Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes or Gabriel García Marquez, among others. “This could be invaluable because it was an indirect way of observing the author, knowing what he was cutting, and beyond knowing that they were the principal authors.” And this part will actually be the third phase of document digitization. “We started with dedications, now we have your notes and press clippings will follow.