In Mad Toy, he incorporates his personal experience into the lives of his characters. Set in the badlands of adolescence, where acts of theft and betrayal become metaphors for creativity, Mad Toy is equal parts pulp fiction, realism, detective story, expressionist drama, and creative memoir.Īn immigrant son of a German father and an Italian mother, Arlt as a youth was a school dropout, poor and often hungry. Mad Toy, acclaimed by many as Arlt’s best novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Roberto Arlt, celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American “boom” and “postboom” novelists such as Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.
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