![]() ![]() “Yes, it’s sad to see other people happy, to see that they don’t understand that you are unhappy and always will be.” ![]() “He understood that destiny had flung him into that maelstrom of outcasts who stamp life with the foul imprint of every imaginable vice and suffering.” Better than me describing Erdosain, let me give you some quotes about him from the novel. ![]() ‘The Seven Madmen’ is the story of Reno Erdosain, a small-time swindler and frequent brothel customer. Roberto began his career as a journalist writing Buenos Aires Sketches and he wrote the novel ‘The Seven Madmen’ in 1929. ![]() They wound up in the slums of Buenos Aires. His parents were attracted to Argentina by the promise of land to farm not realizing that all the land was already in the hands of a few owners. Roberto Arlt, born in 1900, was the son of two of the many Prussian immigrants to Buenos Aires. At the same time the novel reflects the energy and chaos and explosive madness in Buenos Aires during the early 20th century.Īmong Argentine writers, Roberto Arlt is a legend His own definition of literature was “a good sock in the jaw”. What words can I use to describe ‘The Seven Madmen’? It is intense, painfully honest, vivid, brutal, grotesque, and insightful as hell. ‘The Seven Madmen’ by Roberto Arlt (1929) – 242 pages Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor ![]()
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