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The Suicides by Antonio di Benedetto

August 21, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

  cbr17bingo white Somewhere, while I was reading this, I encountered a review of this book that praised it for its ironic lightheartedness.  Say what?  Oh hell no. The author is an Argentinian who was imprisoned and tortured during the military dictatorship of the 1970s.  This book, written in 1969, a product of a time when Argentinian citizens were being disappeared off the streets and dropped out of planes (disturbingly familiar.)  The narrator, a reporter, has been assigned the task of writing about three unrelated […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1970s Argentima, Antonio Di Benedetto, cbr17bingo, Don't think I am getting the point, I don't think newspapers work this way, Not a good time, Why am I reading this?

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1970s Argentima, Antonio Di Benedetto, cbr17bingo, Don't think I am getting the point, I don't think newspapers work this way, Not a good time, Why am I reading this? ·
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