Juan Angel's Birthday
NOVEL IN VERSE, 1971. ALFAGUARA NEW EDITION, 1992. 171 PAGES.
In Juan Angel's Birthday, a novel in verse, Mario Benedetti gives shape to the most experimental of all his books. The protagonist, Osvaldo Puente (who later becomes Juan Ángel, his nom de guerre), a member of Montevideo's decisive middle class, celebrates his birthday; but as the hours of that single day go by, the character's age changes as well, and he ends up joining the urban guerrilla. The brevity of the work, its transparent symbolism, the beauty of the language in which it is written, the rage and indignation that underlie the humor of the first term, turn El cumpleaños de Juan Ángel into a small literary jewel.
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