Schavelzon Graham Agencia literaria Barcelona

Time Mailbox

SHORT STORIES. ALFAGUARA, 1999. 192 PAGES.

Time Mailbox covers the different forms of the encounter: the nostalgic memory of a lost love, the rumors of other times, the unanswered calls, the painfully recovered identity, the mirrors that age the images, the imminence of death, the return of conscience with a ghost mask, and the shared winks: soccer, cinema, Viglietti, Subcomandante Marcos...

Mario Benedetti reveals the world to us as poetry, as a trap, and always as a promise. He summons original emotion by appealing to his best resources: the most intelligent humor, the sharpest irony, the most touching tenderness.

This book of stories is a true mosaic of emotions drawn between smoke signals, shipwrecks, dreams and letters thrown to the center of the heart: the best remedy for the incurable of loneliness. In the form of letters, the author's voice marks out for us complicit traces of reading: "I leave my compass with the warning that north is south and vice versa: I leave my street and its cobblestones, I leave my corner and its surprises, I leave my door with its four keys: I leave my threshold with your faint footsteps...".

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