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3 unusual facts about Roberto Arlt


Mad Toy

Mad Toy is the first novel of the Argentinean author Roberto Arlt.

Roberto Arlt

He is widely considered to be one of the founders of the modern Argentine novel; among those contemporary writers who claim to have been influenced by Arlt are Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia and César Aira.

Analogues in English literature are those who avoid literary 'respectability' by writing about the poor, the criminal and the mad: writers like William Burroughs, Iceberg Slim, and Irvine Welsh.



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