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Books by Roberto Arlt
  | | The Seven Madmen(Reprint) (New York Review Books Classics) by Roberto Arlt, Nick Caistor, Julio Cortazar Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-914-7, ISBN: 1-59017-914-5 "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. Then his wife leaves him and things only go downhill after that. Erdosain wanders the crowded, confusing streets of Buenos Aires, thronging with ..." |
 | | Mad Toy(1st Edition) by Roberto Arlt, Michele Mckay Aynesworth Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2002 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2940-4, ISBN: 0-8223-2940-9 "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 García Márquez 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 ..." |
 | | The Mad Toy(1st Edition) by Roberto Arlt, Colm Tóibín, James Womack Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by Hesperus Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84391-465-5, ISBN: 1-84391-465-4 "First published in 1920, The Mad Toy is set in Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Feeling the alienation of youth, Silvio Astier's gang tours neighbourhoods, 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 ..." |
 | | The Mad Toy by Roberto Arlt 164 Pages, Published 2013 by Hesperus Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78094-173-8, ISBN: 1-78094-173-0 "Arlt's writing provides a snapshot of Argentina at a formative time in its history and embodies the human condition with is ultra realistic depiction of the highs and lows of daily existence"--Jacket flap." |
 | | El juguete rabioso by Roberto Arlt Paperback, Published 2019 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-09-588777-6, ISBN: 1-09-588777-7 |
 | | Mad Toy (El Juguete Rabioso) by Roberto Arlt, Translator-Michele Aynesworth Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2002 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2911-4, ISBN: 0-8223-2911-5 |
 | | The Seven Madmen (Extraordinary Classics) by Roberto Arlt, Nick Caistor, Roberto Bolaño Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1998 by Serpent's Tail ISBN-13: 978-1-85242-592-0, ISBN: 1-85242-592-X "First published in 1929, The Seven Madmen perfectly captures the conflict of Argentine society at a crucial moment in its history. Arlt's exploration of the still mysterious city of Buenos Aires, its street slang, crowded tenements, crazy juxtapositions, and anguish are at the core of this novel. In this seething, hostile city, Erdosain wanders the streets, trying to decipher the teeming life going on behind dark doors. He searches, lit ..." |
 | | Seven Madmen(1st Edition) by Roberto Arlt Hardcover, 271 Pages, Published 1984 by David R Godine Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-87923-492-8, ISBN: 0-87923-492-X "First published in 1929, The Seven Madmen perfectly captures the conflict of Argentine society at a crucial moment in its history. Arlt's exploration of the still mysterious city of Buenos Aires, its street slang, crowded tenements, crazy juxtapositions, and anguish are at the core of this novel. In this seething, hostile city, Erdosain wanders the streets, trying to decipher the teeming life going on behind dark doors. He searches, lit ..." |
 | | The Flamethrowers by Roberto Arlt Published 2018 ISBN-13: 978-0-9654756-9-3, ISBN: 0-9654756-9-7 |
 | | Eldir(2nd Edition) Hijo de Liam by Andrea V. Luna, Roberto Arlt Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 2016 by Ediciones Horizontales Company ISBN-13: 978-1-68086-227-0, ISBN: 1-68086-227-8 "Los Siete Locos La primera parte del díptico que Arlt completará en 1931 con Los lanzallamas, relata como Remo Erdosain, un modesto estafador sin ánimo de lucro, se une a una sociedad secreta dirigida por El Astrólogo y en la que ..." |
 | | The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt 272 Pages, Published 2015 by New York Review Of Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-915-4, ISBN: 1-59017-915-3 "Arlt's entire oeuvre is proof of this disadvantage, which paradoxically makes him all the grander and dearer to me. It is enough to go from The Mad Toy to The Seven Madmen, and then from this to The Flamethrowers, to become aware of the ..." |
 | | The Seven Madmen (Serpent's Tail Classics) by Roberto Arlt, Roberto Bolaño, Nick Caistor Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by Serpent's Tail ISBN-13: 978-1-78125-428-8, ISBN: 1-78125-428-1 "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 ..." |
 | | DOS Relatos. el Jorobadito. Las Fieras by Roberto Arlt Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-299-81590-2, ISBN: 1-299-81590-1 |
 | | Mad Toy by Roberto Arlt 184 Pages, Published 2002 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-8333-8, ISBN: 0-8223-8333-0 "Days later Irzubeta was sporting a brand-new air gun, which he then sold to a used-clothing salesman on Reconquista Street. This happened in the days when fearless Bonnot and the ever-valiant Valet were terrorizing Paris.5 I had already read the forty-some-odd volumes written by Viscount Ponson du Terrail about the admirable Rocambole,6 adopted son of Mother Fipart, and I dreamed of becoming a bandit of the old school. Well, one su ..." |
 | | Assumed Name(1st Edition) (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr)) by Ricardo Piglia, Roberto Arlt, Sergio Waisman, Sergio Gabriel Waisman Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1995 by Latin American Literary Review Press ISBN-13: 978-0-935480-71-9, ISBN: 0-935480-71-4 "stories, Argentina, tr Sergio Gabriel Waisman" |
 | | The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt Published 2015 by Serpent's Tail ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-148-8, ISBN: 1-78283-148-7 "Roberto Bolaño's “The Vagaries of the Literature of Doom” is the second Afterword. ... the father of the modern Argentinian novel ... he is the most important Argentinian novelist, the greatest” Ricardo Piglia “If ever anyone from these shores could." |
 | | El escritor fracasado y otros relatos (Spanish Edition) by Arlt, Roberto Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2023 by La Pereza Ediciones ISBN-13: 978-1-62375-219-4, ISBN: 1-62375-219-1 |
 | | El juguete Rabioso (Spanish Edition) by Roberto Arlt Paperback, 130 Pages, Published 2018 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-986248-99-0, ISBN: 1-986248-99-2 "El protagonista de El Juguete Rabioso, una novela casi autobiográfica que refleja el caos de comienzos del siglo XX en Buenos Aires, es Silvio Astier, un adolescente expulsado del colegio, que vive como una humillación su pobreza, e intenta vanamente escapar de ella a toda costa, sumiéndose cada vez más en un oscuro pesimismo a medida que fracasa en sus intentos. En un ambiente saturado de personajes siniestros y ruines, así como situac ..." |
 | | The Semiotics of a Bourgeois Society An Analysis of the Aguafuertes Portenas by Roberto Arlt (Scripta Humanistica) by Victoria Jeanne Martinez, Roberto Arlt Hardcover, 198 Pages, Published 1997 by Scripta Humanistica ISBN-13: 978-1-882528-22-6, ISBN: 1-882528-22-0 "As an exciting addition to the several collections of Arlt's essays, this study offers perspectives through its examination of the language of the essays and the semiotic codes that provide insight into Arlt's opinions on porteño social structure, including the place of women within that structure. Through its literary analysis, this book opens the possibilities for further comparison of Arlt's articles to his fiction. The addendum cont ..." |
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