La tregua de Mario Benedetti. Un desdoblamiento entre la memoria colectiva y la memoria individual
La tregua by Mario Benedetti. A separation between the collective memory and the individual memory

Summary/Abstract: Mario Benedetti writes La tregua with the purpose of showing through the eyes of an office worker the vices of a system that has no empathy, that has created people unable to share their feelings or identify themselves with the state of mind of another fellow human being, on one hand, and on the other hand, all the anxiety that transfers on a personal level. The splitting present in the novel affects not only the main character but also the Uruguayan society in post-World War II era. We are witnessing the division of the capital according to the characters that examine it, on one hand the office workers that cannot enjoy their free time, and on the other hand, the luckiest people that can contemplate all the views that the city offers. The main character is presented to us also divided into two different human beings, one that is the office worker, anchored in the office world, and the other one, a sad dreamer that is waiting to retire in order to be able to enjoy life. This is how the author achieves to combine personal memory with the collective one and gives evidence of a society that contaminates its citizens with solitude, anxiety, lack of compassion and, at the same time, proposes the idea of a truce.

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