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Los Siete Locos
Roberto Arlt
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R649
Discovery Miles 6 490
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Saverio El Cruel
Roberto Arlt
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R349
Discovery Miles 3 490
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Viaje Terrible
Roberto Arlt
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Discovery Miles 3 470
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Los Lanzallamas
Roberto Arlt
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R622
Discovery Miles 6 220
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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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Mad Toy (Paperback)
Roberto Arlt; Translated by Michele Aynesworth
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R747
R669
Discovery Miles 6 690
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Roberto Arlt, 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," acclaimed
by many as Arlt's best novel, is set against the chaotic background
of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the badlands
of adolescence, where acts of theft and betrayal become metaphors
for creativity, "Mad Toy" is equal parts pulp fiction, realism,
detective story, expressionist drama, and creative memoir.
An immigrant son of a German father and an Italian mother, Arlt as
a youth was a school dropout, poor and often hungry. In "Mad Toy, "
he incorporates his personal experience into the lives of his
characters. Published in 1926 as "El juguete rabioso," the novel
follows the adventures of Silvio Astier, a poverty-stricken and
frustrated youth who is drawn to gangs and a life of petty crime.
As Silvio struggles to bridge the gap between exuberant imagination
and the sordid reality around him, he becomes fascinated with
weapons, explosives, vandalism, and thievery, despite a desperate
desire to rise above his origins. Flavored with a dash of romance,
a hint of allegory, and a healthy dose of irony, the novel's
language varies from the cultured idiom of the narrator to the
dialects and street slang of the novel's many colorful
characters.
"Mad Toy "has appeared in numerous Spanish editions and has been
adapted for the stage and for film. It is the second of Arlt's
novels to be translated into English.
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