Roberto Arlt

Roberto Godofredo Arlt ( born April 2, 1900 in Buenos Aires, † July 26, 1942 ) was an Argentine journalist, short story writer and playwright.

He belonged to the Grupo Boedo, an association of more socialist-oriented young writers who stood by Jorge Luis Borges, in contrast to European and aesthetically oriented Grupo Florida. He found during his lifetime hardly recognition, but is now regarded as the founder of the Argentine city novel, also important stylist. He is often compared to Dostoevsky or Doblin. Several of his novels have been filmed. Arlt died at 42 after a heart attack.

Life and work

Arlt came from a German - Austrian immigrant family who lived in extremely poor conditions. In addition, his father was violent, what should be reflected in almost all texts Roberto. He left school at the age of eight. At 16, he moved to Córdoba to keep yourself with the wide variety of economic activities on water, such as a mechanic, or retailers Dockers before he tries to be a writer and journalist. After his military service he married. His first novel (El juguete rabioso, The Toy) appear 1926. According to Buenos Aires returned, it is 1927 police reporter at the Crítica. Soon he gets a column in the daily newspaper El Mundo, which gives him some hearing. The best of his almost 2,000 Aguafuertes ( etchings ) of this prestigious journal are now counted among the classics of Argentine essay writing. In the 1930s, he occasionally correspondent for El Mundo in Rio de Janeiro, Spain and North Africa. Until his untimely death, he turns almost entirely to the drama. In expressive, for some critics as " vulgar " language Arlt treated life the curse of the struggle for existence, the rebellion, the crime, the psychology of violence. In his last years he tried because of its constant need of money even as the inventor of a synthetic ladies stocking - in vain. Arlt's estate is located in the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin library.

Works

Prose

  • El diario de un morfinómano (1920 )
  • El juguete rabioso (1926 ), dt The evil toys; Ffm 2006 ( Suhrkamp )
  • Los siete locos (1929 ), dt The seven madmen, Ffm, 1971 ( Island) and 1977 ( Suhrkamp )
  • Los lanzallamas (1931 ), The German flamethrower, Ffm 1973 ( Island)
  • El amor brujo (1932 )
  • Aguafuertes porteñas (1933 ), Essays
  • El jorobadito (1933 )
  • Aguafuertes españolas (1936 ), Essays
  • El criador de gorilas (1941 )
  • Nuevas aguafuertes españolas (1960 ), Essays

Dramas

  • El humillado (1930)
  • Prueba de amor (1932 )
  • Trescientos millones (1932 ), dt Three hundred million
  • Escenas de un grotesco (1934 )
  • El fabric ante de fantasmas (1936 )
  • Saverio el cruel (1936 )
  • La isla desierta (1937 ), Eng. The desert Iceland
  • Separación feroz (1938 )
  • África (1938 )
  • La fiesta del hierro (1940 )
  • El desierto entra a la ciudad ( 1942)
  • La cabeza del separada tronco (1964 )
  • El amor brujo (1971 )
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