Antonio Seguí

Córdoba, Argentina, 1934



His work was awarded the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Print Biennial (1966), the International Prize for painting at Darmstadt, Germany (1967); the Grand Prix at the Krakow Print Biennial (1968); the Grand Prix of the National Arts Fund, Buenos Aires (1990); the Gold Medal of the Triennial of Graphic Arts in Norway (1995). In 2005 the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris organized a successful retrospective of his work.

Títulos publicados:
Parisian Tales
Letters to Ophélia

Parisian Tales

Mario Benedetti



Antonio Seguí (illustrations)

«In the house on Rue Blomet, Madame Benoit greeted us with her usual sharp and distant smile. He held out his hand to her and said in his usual way that he was pleased that Mrs. Méndez [Madame Mandés] had arrived safely. She smiled and stammered out another banal pleasantry inreply. He got her key and they went up to the room.»

The stories in this book talk about exile, love, loneliness, indifference and friendship. They are deep stories, told in a simple way with Paris as their common background. However this is not the Paris that one finds in postcards but rather it is that Paris which marked the life of many generations during the 1960s and 1970s. The main characters are men and women whose way of feeling and thinking moves us and inevitably captivates us.

The illustrations by the great artist Antonio Seguí recreate this raw, poetic and sometimes comical world that beats through in these memorable pages of Mario Benedetti.

160 x 240 mm; 58 pp. Hardback with Jacket | ISBN: 978-84-96509-38-9

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