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A painstaking look at Benedetti featuring a collection of photos of him at different stages of his life, it stems from the numerous interviews Campanella conducted with the author in 1980. "Afterward I made a map of his life path, his friends, his trips ... of everything, always in relation to his work," she told Efe."I did a lot of interviews," Campanella said. "I poured over publications, archives; I searched through documents and letters. And then came the process of putting it all together so the story of his life was framed in its historical, social and political context, and finally, so the result was something readable."The volume drives home the point that the Uruguayan author's main commitment has also been "to his writing."But, in addition to his craft, Benedetti also is known as a person devoted to his surroundings and his fellow man, Campanella said, recalling one line of his verse: "the human being's awareness is contaminated by awareness of his neighbor."