Analysis Of The Truce Of Mario Benedetti

It seemed like a fabulous work to me. I am not used to reading novels but this one captivated me from beginning to end. I think it has a unique style. During the course of the piece, order and rhythm are maintained. It is an agile and entertaining read, in addition to maintaining a certain suspense. What I did not like is that it is too regional; uses many idioms and words unique to the south of the American continent.
I consider that La Tregua has in Martín Santomé a character with a lot of character and determination, when something is proposed. The subject is unusual but exciting; a man about to retire and the diary he writes.
I think the play is well planned. The idyll with Laura Avellaneda is the center of the work. That part is a segment loaded with eroticism, love and romanticism. It is a truly encouraging piece. It makes us see that to be happy you just have to try. Unfortunately that Laura died (because Martín would not like us to say "passed away"); closes that chapter of Martin's wonderful life and his wishes for marriage.

Something truly admirable about Mario Benedetti's pen is the clarity with which he expresses the feelings that are being formed at one point in the work.
Also, the amount of feelings and ideas that he expresses. For example, not in any novel the father and son relationship is narrated when it is conflictive. In addition, the fact that the novel is narrated by its main character, gives many details to the reading. It is not a direct narration towards us as if she will tell us about it; rather, it is as if we were the newspaper to whom she told her experiences.
Something worth noting is how the author captures the loneliness of middle age for this man who seems to have lost everything. His wife, the being he loved the most, is dead and his children too far from their father. In all that dark cloud suddenly a ray of light emerges called Laura Avellaneda; or as he called her, simply Avellaneda. She comes to turn his world around and practically gives him a reason to live. What's more, he rejuvenates you; because Martín begins to behave like a teenager who has just fallen in love.
Laura awakens feelings in Martín that he believed he had buried with his wife. I think it all started as a way to break the tedious office routine. Mr. Santomé is a man without goals and without much success; But when he realizes his feelings for Laura, he decides to take a risk and, for once in his life, be a winner.
It is a mostly sad novel, because even when he already lives the romance with Laura he still thinks about his wife, Isabel. I think the character is extremely depressing and, at times, lacks courage and power of authority (as when his son tells him: "What do you care!" And he has no courage to claim him properly).
I consider Martín as a person defeated by life. Perhaps in his youth he dreamed of success and had goals to accomplish; But the lack of ability and low self-confidence led him to where he is, in an irrelevant job that does not fulfill his professional aspirations.
In part I understand his lack of motivation, since his family life is not harmonious. I think he is a person who seems to be older than he is.
In many parts of the novel, Martín is shown as cold and raw. When Vignale tries to make friends with Santomé again, he does not remember who is his interlocutor and is disinterested towards the comments that emanate from him.
Apparently that coldness is what keeps him away from his children; but nevertheless, with Laura he shows a paternal warmth. That heat scares him because he aspires to another type of relationship.
The energies that he expends in conquering Laura are admirable. The energy that he perhaps he had saved since the death of his wife; That love is not capable of showing it to anyone else.
His relationship with his children is distant, something that worries and torments him; but he does not find the solution and does not look for it very hard.
The last days at the office are painful for Martín, but loneliness will be even more so when he stops working.
Martín pretended that Laura's death had not affected him but he suffers internally. The death of her wife was painful but he came to consummate her relationship with her through her marriage. I think that Mr. Santomé considers that the love that Laura and he had for each other was not solidified, that is why she wanted to get married.
This novel also teaches us that we can be happy just by trying; He also gives us another important lesson, that we must live every moment to the fullest because life is very short and can be extinguished at any moment.
I want to add that this work by Mario Benedetti is valuable for various reasons: its subject matter, the values ​​it embodies in her, the warmth and level of description of feelings, by the way she puts us into the scenes and scenarios that He describes.
I consider this piece relevant within the genre of the novel.