First published in 1920, The Mad Toy is set in Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Feeling the alienation of youth, Silvio Astier's gang tours neighbourhoods, inflicting waves of petty crime, stealing from homes and shops until the police are forced to intervene. Drifting then from one care[...]
Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American "boom" and "postboom" novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. "Mad Toy", Arlt's most acclaimed novel, is set against the [...]
Remo Erdosain's Buenos Aires is a dim, seething, paranoid hive of hustlers and whores, scoundrels and madmen, and Erdosain feels his soul is as polluted as anything in this dingy city. Possessed by the directionlessness of the society around him, trapped between spiritual anguish and madness, he cli[...]
Roberto Arlt (Buenos Aires, 2 de abril de 1900-26 de julio de 1942). Argentina. De padre prusiano, Karl Arlt, y madre italiana, Ekatherine Lostraibitzer, tuvo dos hermanas que murieron de tuberculosis. Arlt practico muy variados oficios. Fue, entre otras[...]
Roberto Arlt (Buenos Aires, 2 de abril de 1900-26 de julio de 1942). Argentina. De padre prusiano, Karl Arlt, y madre italiana, Ekatherine Lostraibitzer, tuvo dos hermanas que murieron de tuberculosis. Arlt practico muy variados oficios. Fue, entre otras cosas, periodista ayudante en una biblioteca,[...]