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Tratado de delincuencia
Con el pretencioso y llamativo título de Tratado de la delincuencia, Roberto Art reunió diversos artículos, entre más de mil, que previamente había publicado en el diario El Mundo de Buenos Aires. Desfilan aquí “La coima” (soborno), “El fascineroso”, “Martingaleros y otros pilletes”, “El abogado en los entierros”, “Asalto en banda y a mano armada”, “Escribe un malandrino”, entre muchos otros más. Son brochazos de realidad, pinceladas breves, inventario de asombros sobre los tipos de delincuentes o pillos urbanos que Arlt conoció en la Buenos Aires de su época. El eje del libro es el delito urbano en sus distintas modalidades, que sirve de pretexto a su autor para ensayar su prosa afilada, su ironía y la crítica social a que acostumbra en sus textos.
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96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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Roberto Arlt
210 books361 followersRoberto Arlt was 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.
His first novel, El juguete rabioso (1926) ("Mad Toy"), was the semi-autobiographical story of Silvio, a dropout who goes through a series of adventures trying to be "somebody." Narrated by Silvio's older self, the novel reflects the energy and chaos of the early 20th century in Buenos Aires. The narrator's literary and sometimes poetic language contrasts sharply with the street-level slang of Mad Toy's many colorful characters.
Arlt's second novel, the popular Los siete locos (The Seven Madmen) was rough, brutal, colloquial and surreal, a complete break from the polite, middle-class literature more typical of Argentine literature (as exemplified, perhaps, by the work of Jorge Luis Borges, however innovative his work was in other respects). Los lanzallamas (The Flame-Throwers) was the sequel, and these two novels together are thought by many to be his greatest work. What followed were a series of short stories and plays in which Arlt pursued his vision of bizarre, half-mad, alienated characters pursuing insane quests in a landscape of urban chaos.
During his lifetime, however, Arlt was best known for his "Aguafuertes" ("Etchings"), the result of his contributions as a columnist - between 1928 and 1942 - to the Buenos Aires daily "El Mundo". Arlt used these columns to comment, in his characteristically forthright and unpretentious style, on the peculiarities, hypocrisies, strangeness and beauty of everyday life in Argentina's capital. These articles included occasional exposés of public institutions, such as the juvenile justice system ("Escuela primaria de delincuencia", 26–29 September 1932) or the Public Health System. Some of the "Aguafuertes" were collected in two volumes under the titles Secretos femeninos. Aguafuertes inéditas and Tratado de delincuencia. Aguafuertes inéditas which were edited by Sergio Olguín and published by Ediciones 12 and Página/12 in 1996.
Between March and May 1930, Arlt wrote a series of "Aguafuertes" as a correspondent to "El Mundo" in Rio de Janeiro. In 1935 he spent nearly a year writing as he traveled throughout Spain and North Africa, on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. At the time of his death, Arlt was hoping to be sent to the United States as a correspondent.
Worn out and exhausted after a lifetime of hardships, he died from a stroke on July 26, 1942. His coffin was lowered from his apartment by an operated crane, an ironic end, considering his bizarre stories.
Arlt has been massively influential on Latin American literature, including the 1960s "Boom" generation of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez. 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. Arlt, however, predated all of them. He is widely considered to be one of the founders of the modern Argentine novel; among those contemporary writers who cla
His first novel, El juguete rabioso (1926) ("Mad Toy"), was the semi-autobiographical story of Silvio, a dropout who goes through a series of adventures trying to be "somebody." Narrated by Silvio's older self, the novel reflects the energy and chaos of the early 20th century in Buenos Aires. The narrator's literary and sometimes poetic language contrasts sharply with the street-level slang of Mad Toy's many colorful characters.
Arlt's second novel, the popular Los siete locos (The Seven Madmen) was rough, brutal, colloquial and surreal, a complete break from the polite, middle-class literature more typical of Argentine literature (as exemplified, perhaps, by the work of Jorge Luis Borges, however innovative his work was in other respects). Los lanzallamas (The Flame-Throwers) was the sequel, and these two novels together are thought by many to be his greatest work. What followed were a series of short stories and plays in which Arlt pursued his vision of bizarre, half-mad, alienated characters pursuing insane quests in a landscape of urban chaos.
During his lifetime, however, Arlt was best known for his "Aguafuertes" ("Etchings"), the result of his contributions as a columnist - between 1928 and 1942 - to the Buenos Aires daily "El Mundo". Arlt used these columns to comment, in his characteristically forthright and unpretentious style, on the peculiarities, hypocrisies, strangeness and beauty of everyday life in Argentina's capital. These articles included occasional exposés of public institutions, such as the juvenile justice system ("Escuela primaria de delincuencia", 26–29 September 1932) or the Public Health System. Some of the "Aguafuertes" were collected in two volumes under the titles Secretos femeninos. Aguafuertes inéditas and Tratado de delincuencia. Aguafuertes inéditas which were edited by Sergio Olguín and published by Ediciones 12 and Página/12 in 1996.
Between March and May 1930, Arlt wrote a series of "Aguafuertes" as a correspondent to "El Mundo" in Rio de Janeiro. In 1935 he spent nearly a year writing as he traveled throughout Spain and North Africa, on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. At the time of his death, Arlt was hoping to be sent to the United States as a correspondent.
Worn out and exhausted after a lifetime of hardships, he died from a stroke on July 26, 1942. His coffin was lowered from his apartment by an operated crane, an ironic end, considering his bizarre stories.
Arlt has been massively influential on Latin American literature, including the 1960s "Boom" generation of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez. 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. Arlt, however, predated all of them. He is widely considered to be one of the founders of the modern Argentine novel; among those contemporary writers who cla
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August 18, 2020
Varios textos son de 1929. Es increíble leerlos casi cien años después y ver que la situación del país es casi un calco de lo que describe Arlt e incluso peor: muchas de las situaciones que narra se han agravado con los años. 1929: el problema no es el peronismo en la Argentina sino el propio argentino. Tristeza... Las cuatro estrellas se deben a Arlt y su maestría para narrar estos episodios tan argentos.
December 30, 2024
3.8
"Creía que los guardiacárceles eran una especie de brutos fenomenales que no tenían otra misión que pasarse el día abriendo los ojos como platos. Recuerdo que cuando estuve en la cárcel (de vista, entendámonos, no preso), cada guárdiacarcel me examinaba de pies a cabeza como si trajera en los bolsillos un bastimento de limas o explosivos. Yo andaba allí como un perro en cancha de bochas. Perdido y amedrentado."
"Creía que los guardiacárceles eran una especie de brutos fenomenales que no tenían otra misión que pasarse el día abriendo los ojos como platos. Recuerdo que cuando estuve en la cárcel (de vista, entendámonos, no preso), cada guárdiacarcel me examinaba de pies a cabeza como si trajera en los bolsillos un bastimento de limas o explosivos. Yo andaba allí como un perro en cancha de bochas. Perdido y amedrentado."
December 26, 2011
Este es un libro editado por Pagina 12 hace ya bastantes años.
Es una compilación de publicaciónes hechas por Arlt para un periodico de la época entre los años 1928 y 1930, hablando del tema de la delincuencia y sus diversas formas: la coima, la organizaciones delictivas, los menores, la carcel, etc, etc.
Desde esos años a ahora no hemos aprendido nada los argentinos y con solo cambiar algunas situaciones y lugares (la ciudad ha cambiado muchisimo en 100 años, ya no hay baldios, potreros, chancherias, etc.), podría muy bien estar hablando de lo que esta pasando hoy día. Tal vez la única diferencia grande es que cuando habla del encarcelamiento de menores, ahora se agrega el tema de la droga, pero en cuanto a los reformatorios, supongo que son casí casí iguales a hace 100 años.
Me quedo con una frase del final del libro:
"Y como todo se contagia, a nuestra vez, nosotros los periodistas que encaramos semejantes problemas, tenemos la íntima convicción de que toda campaña contra estas instituciones es perfectamente inútil. Durante dos o tres días las gentes comentan las anomalías que el diario les ha revelado, luego se olvidan...... Y el terrible problema quedará en el aire hasta que venga otro que escriba estas notas.. y la gente vuelva a olvidarse"
Es una compilación de publicaciónes hechas por Arlt para un periodico de la época entre los años 1928 y 1930, hablando del tema de la delincuencia y sus diversas formas: la coima, la organizaciones delictivas, los menores, la carcel, etc, etc.
Desde esos años a ahora no hemos aprendido nada los argentinos y con solo cambiar algunas situaciones y lugares (la ciudad ha cambiado muchisimo en 100 años, ya no hay baldios, potreros, chancherias, etc.), podría muy bien estar hablando de lo que esta pasando hoy día. Tal vez la única diferencia grande es que cuando habla del encarcelamiento de menores, ahora se agrega el tema de la droga, pero en cuanto a los reformatorios, supongo que son casí casí iguales a hace 100 años.
Me quedo con una frase del final del libro:
"Y como todo se contagia, a nuestra vez, nosotros los periodistas que encaramos semejantes problemas, tenemos la íntima convicción de que toda campaña contra estas instituciones es perfectamente inútil. Durante dos o tres días las gentes comentan las anomalías que el diario les ha revelado, luego se olvidan...... Y el terrible problema quedará en el aire hasta que venga otro que escriba estas notas.. y la gente vuelva a olvidarse"
March 10, 2019
Al tratarse de una recopilación de notas escritas en un periódico entre 1928 y 1932, tal vez haga recordar al lector a sus famosas “Aguafuertes Porteñas”. Esta obra consiste en una descripción de temas argentinos relacionados a los delitos, tales como la coima, los menores delincuentes, la carcel, etc. No es un libro pesado, es más bien tranquilo, con un lenguaje clásico del porteño, muy bien narrado.
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