The Seven Madmen

ISBN-13: 9781781254288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str.

Roberto Arlt

Opis

In the seething, hostile city of Buenos Aires, Erdosain wanders the streets, trying to decipher the multifarious lives going on behind dark doors. He searches, literally, for his soul, which is causing him so much pain, wondering what it might look like.

Recenzje

If great means anything at all, then Arlt is surely a great writer ... he is Latin America's first truly urban novelist ... this is the power which inspired literature possesses Guardian

O autorze

Roberto Arlt was born in Buenos Aires in 1900, the son of a Prussian immigrant from Poznán, Poland. Brought up in the city's crowded tenement houses - the same tenements which feature in The Seven Madmen - Arlt had a deeply unhappy childhood and left home at the age of sixteen. As a journalist, Arlt described the rich and vivid life of Buenos Aires; as an inventor, he patented a method to prevent ladders in women's stockings. Arlt died suddenly of a heart attack in Buenos Aires in 1942. He was the author of the novels The Mad Toy, The Flamethrowers, Love the Enchanter and several plays.