From the mid-1980s to the beginning of the 21st century, Mario Benedetti (1920-2009) signed. lots of articles On the pages of El País. Some articles that structure an important part of the production and this shows the concerns a socially engaged writer and his eyes are always on Latin America. But the newspapers were mostly for Uruguayan writers. “The newspaper was like water in the morning, it was a religion, it was Benedetti’s secular religion,” says Juan Cruz.
The author and journalist closed his I international seminar at 7:00 pm this afternoon. Writing profession: Relationships between journalism and literature in the Ibero-American fieldOrganized by the UA and the UMH. And he will do it with a talk-debate Benedetti in the Newspapershe will be accompanied by professors Carmen Alemany. and Eva Valero. “I said it in the newspapers, I should have said it in the countries, because he was the man of the countries,” says his friend at the same time; so much that he “call me to tell me about the news in the morning”.
Cruz thinks he “has a tough Benedetti of the newspapers because he was mistreated when they published the arguments he had with him. Juan Goytisolo or with Mario Vargas Llosa.” Definitely “I made up with Mario because I gave a lecture with him once and invited Benedetti; He left, Mario praised him, and they became friends again”.
According to Juan Cruz, who visited the poet shortly before his death in Montevideo, the Uruguayan “confused the newspaper by the way journalists treated him, and he believed that all newspapers were in solidarity with those who published against him.”
Now Mario Benedetti, whom he sees as “a civic poet who also writes prose,” will read “a single newspaper” and, as the journalist put it, “will not hesitate to issue up-to-date papers that are usually based on what is nets”.