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Di Benedetto began writing and publishing stories in his teens, inspired by the works of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoeyevsky and Luigi Pirandello. Mundo Animal , appearing in 1952, was his first story collection and won prestigious awards. A revised version came out in 1971, but the Xenos Books translation uses the first edition to catch the youthful flavor.
Di Benedetto wrote five novels, the most famous being the existential masterpiece Zama ( 1956). Los suicidas ( The Suicides , 1969) is noteworthy for expressing his intense abhorrence of noise. Critics have compared his works to Alain Robbe-Grillet, Julio Cortázar and Ernesto Sábato .
In 1976, during the military dictatorship of General Videla, di Benedetto was imprisoned and tortured. Released after a year, he went into exile in SpainThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc, then returned home in 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe. He travelled widely and won numerous awards, but never acquired the worldwide fame of other Latin American writers. Perhaps more translations will correct this injustice.