The Reading Life: "The Night of the Ugly Ones" by Benedetti Mario-A Podcast by Miette's Bedtime Story podcast
Excerpt:
One of her new selections was "The Night of the Ugly Ones" by Mario Benedetti (1920 to 2009-Uruguay) I admit freely I have never heard of Benedetti , and unless you are from Uruguay you may not have either, so I, of course, Googled him. It turns out he is is a well known Uruguayan poet, journalist, and writer of fiction. He is evidently famous in Latin American literary circles but is little translated out of Spanish...One of the "uses" of literature is it lets us or if well done and we open ourselves to it, forces us, to see the humanity in people very other from ourselves. If this story has a moral, it is an old one, "There but for the Grace of God, go I"..
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