Pedro e il capitano

by Mario Benedetti, Furio Lippi (Translator)

Pedro e il Capitano rappresentano due personaggi tipici, purtroppo, dell'America Latina contemporanea: il torturatore e il torturato. Una pièce nel corso della quale vengono alla luce tenerezza e crudeltà, ipocrisia e dirittura morale, in un gioco assurdo e disperato che mette a nudo l'infamia del potere basato sulla sopraffazione.

Genres: Fiction, Spanish Literature, Classics, Plays, Drama, Read For School, School

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Mario Benedetti (full name: Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia) was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world. He is considered one of Latin America's most important 20th-century writers.

Benedetti was a member of the 'Generation of 45', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement and also wrote in the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha from 1945 until it was forcibly closed by the military government in 1973, and was its literary director from 1954. From 1973 to 1985 he lived in exile, and returned to Uruguay in March 1983 following the restoration of democracy.