If you are a Spanish speaker and want to give yourself a cracking good time, please listen to the Audible version of the novel La tregua by Mario Benedetti. The voice actor, Ernesto Alterio, delivers it in such a spot-on, brilliant way that you’ve got to be dead and buried not to enjoy it.
I don’t even like Benedetti, and I’m almost in tears from how glorious this book is.
Maybe I was wrongly prejudiced about Benedetti. I read him back in college but all I remember was that I deeply disliked the writing. This is unusual for me as I would read anything, including candy wrappers, as long as it’s in Spanish.
Please start listening now. I can’t bear the thought that time is passing by, and people who could be reveling in the voice rendition of this excellent book are not doing it.
Also, please recommend to your students. Alterio speaks very slowly to transmit the vacillating, uncertain personality of the narrator, and it makes the novel perfect even for lower intermediate students.
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