the letter you wrote to journalist Paco Igartua jokingly recounting how in 1975 Peruvian police went to his house to expel him; HE Speech in memory of Alejo Carpentier; Evaluations of the works presented to the members of the jury I Jaime Gil de Biedma Poetry Prize in 1991; manuscript of the poem Hobby 1987’s or “trick” to know Using computer. That was Mario Benedetti, and this is how he can be recognized through the collection it offers to scholars and enthusiasts on the website of the Center for Ibero-American Literature Studies at the University of Alicante, named after the Uruguayan poet. . since last tuesdayshowing many for the first time.
The basis of this documentation is library in the author’s home in Madrid and that he donated to the University of Alicante in 2006. A surprising collection that has been on the shelves in her home since the 1980s, when she moved to Spain. Not just in books between pages, in folders and notebooks where he writes, marks or records ideas or thoughts. This is despite the fact that everything to come is only progress.
“What we do is segment the fund. different sections to expand because there are so many books with lots of curiosities in them, from notes to notes to little scraps of paper with comments or thoughts,” he says. Beatriz Aracil, Director of CeMaB. Those chapters areor Annotations, Self-review, Dedications, and Correspondence. “We haven’t done a section about articles and newspapers yet, not just about him, because Benedetti was collecting clippings to deal with other people’s writing in this business.”
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In Annotations, you can view the author’s personal notebook, handwritten reviews of books available to the reader. Banco Exterior de España Poetry Prize in 1992; manuscript on comments on some of Sergio Ramírez’s stories; Excerpts from The Book of Unrest Bernardo Soaresrelated to Fernando Pessoa; typewriter on victor jaraor handwritten notes on Alejo Carpenter and dedication Thomas Santos, With a pencil portrait of Benedetti from 1988.
“Although we haven’t yet been able to digitize everything that reading other poets implies for Benedetti, we found some very interesting material here,” says Aracil. “We started by papers and cards included in the books». And what’s interesting, he points out, is that he “provides an overview of the poetry or narrative of the moment with his appreciations as a jury for some of the awards.”
in the section reviewing your own work Material is emerging for the first time showing that Benedetti was a perfectionist poet who reviewed and corrected his books.
Here is the handwritten version of the poem self rescuefrom 1987; the author’s personal notebook with notations for conferences and telephone numbers, or handwritten notes on stories“perhaps for a conference”.
Inside dedications selection work included Eva Valero Juan and Monica Ruiz Bañuls The exhibit includes dedications by Dear Mario… Alberti, José Luis Sampedro, Vázquez Montalbán, Maruja Torres, Monterroso, Sergio Ramírez or Juan Gelman.
ends with bottom Correspondence, contains letters or cards addressed to the Uruguayan poet. In the documentation provided by Benedetti, approx. a dozen letters or notes sent by authors such as FElix Grande or Cristina Peri Rossi, “But we’ve only included and expanded upon what we’re entitled to”.
This section is where the typewritten letter addressed to Paco Igartua, a copy of which is preserved; a special card Jorge Valdanoanother Luis Sepulveda or letters of appointment as judges for different awards.