Mad Toy: Roberto Arlt on Picaresque Betrayal and Rebirth
Channel: Inventing Romance Studies
Date: 2024-01-22

Arlt steals from the literary tradition, as with his theft of elements of the picaresque, but he also turns his back on it, betrays it, gives it a figurative middle finger, by opening up his text to the cacophonous demotic of the Buenos Aires streets.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

00:00 Introduction 
02:39 The Picaresque, Pulp Fiction, and New Forms of Representation
05:35 Questions 
11:28 The Politics and Aesthetics of Betrayal
21:00 Credits

For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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