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 clings to anything that can give
his life meaning: small-time defrauding of his employers, hatred of
his wife's cousin Gregorio Barsut, a part in the Astrologer's plans
for a new world order... but is that enough? Or is the only
appropriate response to reality - insanity? Written in 1929, The
Seven Madmen depicts an Argentina on the edge of the precipice.
This teeming world of dreamers, revolutionaries and scheming
generals was Arlt's uncanny prophesy of the cycle of conflict which
would scar his country's passage through the twentieth century, and
even today it retains its power as one of the great apocalyptic
works of modern literature.
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