| Cuentos & Aguafuertes Contributor(s): Martínez Ruppel, Fernando (Author) |
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ISBN: 9876346733 ISBN-13: 9789876346733 Publisher: Ediciones Lea OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback Language: Spanish Published: October 2012 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Physical Information: 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In his 42 years of life, Roberto Arlt was witness to one and a half world wars, a successful Communist revolution, and various failed attempts; he saw the most important crisis to hit the capitalist system and understood the ferocity of the Holocaust. But most important, perhaps, is that Arlt formed part of the generation that first faced the downfall of the notion of infinite progress and of unrestricted innovation, confronting these facts along with the brutal violence that marked the early 20th century. Arlt's poetics of disenchantment and disillusion are the most distinctive aspects of his stories and etchings, perhaps the works that best represent the period. En los cuarenta y dos a os que dur su vida, Roberto Arlt fue testigo de una guerra mundial y media, una revoluci n comunista triunfante (la sovi tica) y varios intentos revolucionarios fallidos; pudo ver la crisis m s importante del sistema capitalista hasta ese momento y pudo entrever la feroz dimensi n del genocidio nazi. Pero lo m s importante, quiz s, sea el hecho de que form parte de la generaci n que se enfrent al fracaso de la idea de progreso indefinido, una generaci n de hombres y mujeres que pas de la confianza ciega en el avance irrestricto de la ciencia y, por qu no tambi n, del bienestar que promet a el pujante capitalismo, a la desaz n de confrontar esa promesa con las masacres que signaron esa primera parte del siglo. No resulta extra o, entonces, que la po tica de Arlt, po tica del desencanto y la desilusi n, sean los rasgos distintos (y brillantes) de sus cuentos y aguafuertes, acaso las obras que m s fielmente lo representan. |