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The Author in the Office - Narrative Writing in Twentieth-Century Argentina and Uruguay (Hardcover)
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The Author in the Office - Narrative Writing in Twentieth-Century Argentina and Uruguay (Hardcover)
Series: Monografias A
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Office-based writers from both sides of the River Plate chronicle
the twentieth century. Martel's La bolsa (1891) initiates, and
Dorfman's Reader (1995) concludes, a study of the white-collar
citizens of Buenos Aires and Montevideo in their daytime habitat:
the office. The literary background is the European literature of
bureaucracy: Balzac, Galdos, Gogol, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Kafka;
the theoretical approach is through the sociologists Max Weber and
C. Wright Mills; the historical context is the twentieth century:
the decline of European power and the ascendency of the USA; two
World Wars; the Wall Street crash; communism and fascism. Through
the eyes of Arlt, Benedetti, Campodonico, Cortazar, De Castro,
Denevi, Fernandez, Marechal, Mariani, Martinez Estrada, Onetti and
Ricci, we observe life on both sides of the River Plate, as the two
countries succumb to polarisation, repression and, eventually,
military dictatorship. This is the twentieth century, viewed by a
bewildered, frequently anguished participant: the person at the
next desk. PAUL R. JORDAN lectures in Hispanic Studies at the
University of Sheffield.
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