The Seven Madmen (New York Review Books Classics)

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The Seven Madmen (New York Review Books Classics)

A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature and a crucial work for Julio CortÃ¡zar, 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. â€œDâ€™you know you look like Lenin?â€ 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.

Country	USA
Author	Roberto Arlt
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781590179154
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	NYRB Classics
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
NumberOfPages	260
PublicationDate	2015-12-22
Publisher	NYRB Classics
ReleaseDate	2015-12-22
Studio	NYRB Classics

The Seven Madmen (New York Review Books Classics)

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