Name: The Seven Madmen (New York Review Books Classics) (in English)
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Author: Julio Cortázar
ISBN: 9781590179147

portada The Seven Madmen (New York Review Books Classics) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Roberto Arlt

Introduction by

Julio Cortázar

Translated by

Nick Caistor

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781590179147

Synopsis "The Seven Madmen (New York Review Books Classics) (in English)"

A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature and a crucial work for Julio Cortázar, The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement. Then his wife leaves him and things only go downhill after that. Erdosain wanders the crowded, confusing streets of Buenos Aires, thronging with immigrants almost as displaced and alienated as he is, and finds himself among a group of conspirators who are in thrall to a man known simply as the Astrologer. The Astrologer has the cure for everything that ails civilization. Unemployment will be cured by mass enslavement. (Mountains will be hollowed out and turned into factories.) Mass enslavement will be funded by industrial-scale prostitution. That scheme will be kicked off with murder. "D'you know you look like Lenin?" Erdosain asks the Astrologer. Meanwhile Erdosain struggles to determine the physical location and dimensions of the soul, this thing that is causing him so much pain. Brutal, uncouth, caustic, and brilliantly colored, The Seven Madmen takes its bearings from Dostoyevsky while looking forward to Thomas Pynchon and Marvel Comics.

Julio Cortázar

(Introduction by)

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Escritor, profesor, guionista y traductor argentino. Es una de la grandes figuras del «boom» de la literatura hispanoamericana. Cortázar se identifica con el Surrealismo a través del estudio de autores franceses. Destaca por sus misceláneas o del género “almanaque”, donde mezcla narrativa, crónica, poesía y ensayo. Sus obras se reconocen por su alto nivel intelectual y por su forma de tratar los sentimientos y las emociones.

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