El juguete rabioso

El juguete rabioso is the first novel by writer Roberto Arlt. In this work, the city of Buenos Aires is converted for the first time into in the site of another form of storytelling, of seeing, very different from the dominant aesthetics of its time. Arlt opens a new literary space with Dostoyevkian influence and picaresque themes, and in it consecrates the outline of men who are subjugated by poverty and the continued loss of faith, survive in the streets of the great cities. El juguete ra...