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The Seven Madmen, which Arlt considered his masterpiece, and its sequel, The Flamethrowers, followed in 1929 and 1931. In the 1930s, Arlt came to prominence as a journalist; he was probably best known for his column Aguafuertes porteñas (Etchings of Buenos Aires).
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The seven madmen : a novel by Arlt, Roberto, 1900-1942. Publication date 1984 Publisher Boston : D.R. Godine Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled
A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature, a crucial work for Julio Cortázar (“If there’s one person in my country I feel close to, it’s Roberto Arlt”), The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement.
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Feb 19, 2015 · 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...
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A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature and a crucial work for Julio Cortázar, The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill...
- Roberto Arlt
- The Seven Madmen
- Julio Cortazar
- Nick Caistor
The Seven Madmen. Roberto Arlt. Serpent's Tail/UNESCO Pub., 1998 - Fiction - 249 pages. In the seething, hostile city of Buenos Aires, Erdosain wanders the streets, trying to decipher the...
An extraordinary portrait of 1920s Buenos Aires, with the existential angst of Sartre's Nausea, the spiritual drama of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and the apocalyptic cult appeal of Alan Moore's Watchmen.
