Are we betrayed by our own steps? What is the difference between an inevitable suicide and a vocational one? Through these types of questions Benedetti helps us reflect upon life: the life of those who love and those who kill; of the faithful and the faithless; of those who open their arms and those who use them as instruments of oppression; those who have been sentenced to death and those for whom life is a sentence. Vivir adrede is a surprising, captivating and entertaining book, with a depth that can only be attained through the simplest words.