Los Lanzallamas

by Roberto Arlt

Overview

Los Lanzallamas es la continuación de Los Siete Locos, publicado en 1929, por Roberto Arlt. Publicado en plena dictadura militar, Los Lanzallamas continúa el aprecio de Arlt por Dostoievski -uno de sus escritores preferidos-, a la hora de retratar de modo muy realista el mundo de los bajos fondos de Buenos Aires, con sus tangos, delincuentes, prostitutas y rufianes.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161323670
Publisher:	Barsoom Editores
Publication date:	04/21/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	444 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

an Argentine writer born Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1900. His parents were both immigrants: his father Karl Arlt was a Prussian from Posen (now Poznan in present-day Poland) and his mother was Ekatherine Iobstraibitzer, a native of Trieste and Italian speaking. German was the language commonly used at their home. His relationship with his father was stressful, as Karl Arlt was a very severe and austere man, by Arlt's own account. The memory of his oppressive father would appear in several of his writings. For example, Remo Erdosain (a character at least partially based on Arlt's own life) often recalls his abusive father and how little if any support he would give him. After being expelled from school at the age of eight, Arlt became an autodidact and worked at all sorts of different odd jobs before landing a job on at a local newspaper: as clerk at a bookstore, apprentice to a tinsmith, painter, mechanic, welder, manager in a brick factory, and dock worker.