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Roberto Arlt (April 2, 1900 – July 26, 1942) was an Argentine novelist, storyteller, playwright, journalist and inventor.
Roberto Arlt (born April 2, 1900, Buenos Aires, Arg.—died July 26, 1942, Buenos Aires) was a novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and journalist who pioneered the novel of the absurd in Argentinian literature.
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Roberto Arlt was an Argentine writer born Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1900. His parents were both immigrants: his father Karl Arlt was a Prussian from Posen (now Poznan in present-day Poland) and his mother was Ekatherine Iobstraibitzer, a native of Trieste and Italian speaking.
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- July 26, 1942
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Roberto Emilio Godofredo Arlt (Buenos Aires; 26 de abril de 1900 - ib.; 26 de julio de 1942), más conocido como Roberto Arlt, fue un novelista, cuentista, dramaturgo, periodista e inventor argentino.
Roberto Arlt. After failing out of primary school and educating himself mainly on the streets of Beunos Aires, Roberto Arlt (1900-1942) would grow to distinguish himself as an important Argentine short story writer, novelist, playwright, and journalist.
The chapter argues that, with the publication of Los siete locos (The Seven Madmen) in 1929, Roberto Arlt produced the first major Argentine novel whose ideological topics, ways of representation, systems of characters, and spatial inventions, far from finding their place among the national literary traditions, establish a dialogue with the ...
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Lauded by critics for exploring innovative themes in his narratives and in the theater, Roberto Arlt was one of the most influential figures in Argentine literature during the first half of the twentieth century.
