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 situaciones absurdas y desesperadas, el joven es objeto del desprecio e intolerancia a su alrededor, sin lograr emerger de una sociedad agobiante. El juguete rabioso es una de las obras clave para entender la obra de Arlt.

El Juguete Rabioso (Spansih Edition) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Arlt, Robert

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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 Aires
Feeling 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.

The Mad Toy

United States

Hesperus Press

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