Roberto Arlt

Aparece en 1962 junto con "Don Segundo Sombra", entre ellas es la expreción inmigrante frete a la expresión nacionalesta, la expresión académica , frente a la expresión transgesora

El juguete rabioso

Written by the popular Argentina novelist of the 20th century. Arlt captures the turbulent and depressing times of Immigrants to Argentina trying to make a new life.

Los siete locos

Los Lanzallamas

Yedi Deli Adam

Los lanzallamas

A man's need to repay money he stole from his employer leads him into the world of crime in 1920s Buenos Aires. A portrait of the city at a time when Argentina was thought to be destined for greatness.

The Seven Madmen

"A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature, a crucial work for Julio Cortazar ("If there's one person in my country I feel close to, it's Roberto Arlt"), The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement. Then his wife leaves him and things only go downhill after that. Erdosain wanders the crowded, confusing streets of Buenos Aires, thronging with immigrants almost as displaced and alienated as he is, and finds himself among a group of conspirators who are in thrall to a man known simply as the Astrologer. The Astrologer has the cure for everything that ails civilization. Unemployment will be cured by mass enslavement. (Mountains will be hollowed out and turned into factories.) Mass enslavement will be funded by industrial-scale prostitution. That scheme will be kicked off with murder. "D'you know you look like Lenin?" Erdosain asks the Astrologer. Meanwhile Erdosain struggles to determine the physical location and dimensions of the soul, this thing that is causing him so much pain.  Brutal, uncouth, caustic, and brilliantly colored, The Seven Madmen takes its bearings from Dostoyevsky while looking forward to Thomas Pynchon and Marvel Comics"--

Deli Oyuncak

Dr. Jeckyl Y Mr. Hyde

Mad Toy

Aguafuertes Portenas

Riley

Lindstrom

The Seven Madmen & the Flamethrowers

Madmen in Revolt

Saverio, il crudele. L'isola deserta

Acqueforti di Buenos Aires

Un viaggio terribile

Una domenica pomeriggio

Roberto Arlt nacio en el barrio porteno de Flores en el ano 1900 y murio en esta ciudad de Buenos Aires en 1942. El amor brujo informa acerca de las relaciones de un hombre casado con una adolescente. A partir de este episodio -apunta Pedro Orgambide-, "Arlt describe las reacciones atipicas de un grupo familiar a la vez que deja testimonio de las hipocresias muy pequeno burguesas acerca del amor, el sexo, el matrimonio (...) Lo que sobrevive, lo que se mantiene con la misma fuerza original, es la observacion sagaz, implacable de si mismo, cierto aliento metafisico en los breves viajes de Retiro al Tigre, en uno de esos trenes que tanto obsesionan a Arlt, trenes que continuarian andando cuando el estuviera definitivamente muerto." TAPA RUSTICA

Roberto Arlt

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