Continuacion de ""Los siete locos"". En esta segunda parte no hay tragedia; la aniquilacion es racional, cientifica, como lo es la guerra quimica o bacteriologica. Erdosain se convierte en cierto modo en la victima del Astrologo, el otro heroe del libro, que se revela como un competente gerente de la monstruosidad, un nuevo dios: el enganador.
The first novel by one of the greatest writers of Latin American literature is a semiautobiographical story reflecting the energy and chaos of early 20th-century Buenos AiresFeeling the alienation of youth, Silvio Astier's gang tours neighborhoods, inflicting waves of petty crime, stealing from homes and shops until the police are forced to intervene. Drifting then from one career and subsequent crime to another, Silvio's main difficulty is his own intelligence, with which he grapples. Writing in the language of the streets and basing his writings in part on his own experience, with his characters wandering in a modern world, Arlt creates a book that combines realism, humor, and anger with detective story. Although astronomically famous in South America, Roberto Arlt's name is still relatively unknown in Anglophone circles, but the rising wave of appreciation of South American literature is bringing him to the fore.
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.
Roberto Arlt nacio en el barrio porteno de Flores en el ano 1900 y murio en esta ciudad de Buenos Aires en 1942. El amor brujo informa acerca de las relaciones de un hombre casado con una adolescente. A partir de este episodio -apunta Pedro Orgambide-, "Arlt describe las reacciones atipicas de un grupo familiar a la vez que deja testimonio de las hipocresias muy pequeno burguesas acerca del amor, el sexo, el matrimonio (...) Lo que sobrevive, lo que se mantiene con la misma fuerza original, es la observacion sagaz, implacable de si mismo, cierto aliento metafisico en los breves viajes de Retiro al Tigre, en uno de esos trenes que tanto obsesionan a Arlt, trenes que continuarian andando cuando el estuviera definitivamente muerto." TAPA RUSTICA
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