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First published as La Tregua in 1960

This translation first published in Penguin Classics 2015

Text copyright © Mario Benedetti 1960
Translation copyright © Harry Morales 2015

Cover image © Getty Images

The moral rights of the author and translator have been asserted

ISBN: 978-0-141-39686-6

Contents

Monday 11 February

Friday 15 February

Monday 18 February

Tuesday 19 February

Thursday 21 February

Friday 22 February

Saturday 23 February

Sunday 24 February

Monday 25 February

Wednesday 27 February

Thursday 28 February

Friday 1 March

Saturday 2 March

Tuesday 12 March

Wednesday 13 March

Friday 15 March

Saturday 16 March

Sunday 17 March

Monday 18 March

Tuesday 19 March

Thursday 21 March

Friday 22 March

Sunday 24 March

Monday 25 March

Wednesday 27 March

Thursday 28 March

Friday 29 March

Saturday 30 March

Sunday 31 March

Monday 1 April

Tuesday 2 April

Thursday 4 April

Friday 5 April

Saturday 6 April

Sunday 7 April

Tuesday 9 April

Wednesday 10 April

Thursday 11 April

Friday 12 April

Sunday 14 April

Tuesday 16 April

Wednesday 17 April

Thursday 18 April

Saturday 20 April

Monday 22 April

Wednesday 24 April

Friday 26 April

Sunday 28 April

Monday 29 April

Tuesday 30 April

Wednesday 1 May

Thursday 2 May

Saturday 4 May

Sunday 5 May

Tuesday 7 May

Wednesday 8 May

Thursday 9 May

Friday 10 May

Saturday 11 May

Sunday 12 May

Monday 13 May

Wednesday 15 May

Thursday 16 May

Friday 17 May

Saturday 18 May

Sunday 19 May

Monday 20 May

Tuesday 21 May

Friday 24 May

Sunday 26 May

Tuesday 28 May

Thursday 30 May

Friday 31 May

Sunday 2 June

Tuesday 4 June

Friday 7 June

Sunday 9 June

Monday 10 June

Tuesday 11 June

Friday 14 June

Saturday 15 June

Sunday 16 June

Thursday 20 June

Friday 21 June

Saturday 22 June

Sunday 23 June

Monday 24 June

Tuesday 25 June

Wednesday 26 June

Thursday 27 June

Friday 28 June

Saturday 29 June

Sunday 30 June

Wednesday 3 July

Thursday 4 July

Saturday 6 July

Sunday 7 July

Monday 8 July

Tuesday 9 July

Wednesday 10 July

Saturday 13 July

Monday 15 July

Wednesday 17 July

Thursday 18 July

Friday 19 July

Saturday 20 July

Sunday 21 July

Monday 22 July

Tuesday 23 July

Friday 26 July

Saturday 27 July

Tuesday 30 July

Thursday 1 August

Saturday 3 August

Sunday 4 August

Wednesday 7 August

Thursday 8 August

Monday 12 August

Thursday 15 August

Friday 16 August

Saturday 17 August

Sunday 18 August

Monday 19 August

Tuesday 20 August

Wednesday 21 August

Thursday 22 August

Friday 23 August

Saturday 24 August

Sunday 25 August

Monday 26 August

Tuesday 27 August

Wednesday 28 August

Thursday 29 August

Friday 30 August

Saturday 31 August

Sunday 1 September

Monday 2 September

Tuesday 3 September

Wednesday 4 September

Thursday 5 September

Friday 6 September

Saturday 7 September

Sunday 8 September

Monday 9 September

Tuesday 10 September

Wednesday 11 September

Thursday 12 September

Friday 13 September

Saturday 14 September

Sunday 15 September

Monday 16 September

Tuesday 17 September

Wednesday 18 September

Thursday 19 September

Friday 20 September

Saturday 21 September

Sunday 22 September

Monday 23 September

Friday 17 January

Wednesday 22 January

Friday 24 January

Sunday 26 January

Tuesday 28 January

Friday 31 January

Monday 3 February

Thursday 6 February

Thursday 13 February

Friday 14 February

Saturday 15 February

Sunday 16 February

Tuesday 18 February

Thursday 20 February

Sunday 23 February

Monday 24 February

Tuesday 25 February

Wednesday 26 February

Thursday 27 February

Friday 28 February

Acknowledgements

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Mario Benedetti (1920–2009) was a Uruguayan novelist, poet and journalist and is considered to be one of the most important Latin American writers of the twentieth century. He was the author of more than ninety books and his work has been translated into twenty-six languages, including Braille. After becoming active in left-wing circles he was exiled from Uruguay following the military coup d’état of 1973, only returning following the restoration of democracy in 1985. He eventually settled in Montevideo, continuing to write until his death in 2009.

Harry Morales is a Spanish literary translator whose translations include the work of the late Mario Benedetti, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Eugenio María de Hostos, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Juan Rulfo, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Ilan Stavans and Francisco Proaño Arandi, among many other distinguished Latin American writers. His work has been widely published in numerous anthologies and has appeared in various journals. He has translated two verse collections by Mario Benedetti, Sólo Mientras Tanto: Poemas: 1948–1950 (Only in the Meantime: Poems: 1948–1950) and Poemas de la Oficina: 1953–1956 (Office Poems: 1953–1956), and a volume of stories, El Resto Es Selva y Otros Cuentos (The Rest is Jungle and Other Stories).

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