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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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Saverio El Cruel
Roberto Arlt
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R371
Discovery Miles 3 710
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Viaje Terrible
Roberto Arlt
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R369
Discovery Miles 3 690
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Los Siete Locos
Roberto Arlt
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R655
Discovery Miles 6 550
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Los Lanzallamas
Roberto Arlt
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R631
Discovery Miles 6 310
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No solo este ensayo se convierte en imprescindible por ser el
primer texto largo y enjundioso que publicara Roberto Arlt, sino
porque su tematica y las cuestiones, cuando no, pulsiones animicas,
que desvela y denuncia el gran novelista bonaerense siguen, a pesar
de los noventa anos transcurridos desde su publicacion, en el
tapete de nuestro dia a dia. Mas aun cuando esta edicion,
profusamente notada, permite, frente a todas las anteriores, una
mejor comprension de la inmensa enganifa y confusion que late bajo
eso que se entiende como esoterismo y espiritualidad, y que un
joven Arlt, con una perspicacia fuera de lo comun, capto de un
golpe en estas breves, cuanto agudas, paginas. Por todo ello, Las
ciencias ocultas en la ciudad de Buenos Aires es un manifiesto de
una actualidad indudable para cualquier buen lector en lengua
espanola.
Arlt es una de las voces mas personales de la prosa
hispanoamericana de comienzos del siglo XX. La carga de angustia y
violencia de sus escritos impregna un soporte liguistico aspero,
dislocado, vivisimo. A las lecturas de novelas picarescas se alio
su experiencia directa del mundo del hampa.
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