UID:
almahu_9949525765402882
Format:
1 online resource (237 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781846154478 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Colección Támesis. Serie A: Monografías ; 226
Content:
Office-based writers from both sides of the River Plate chronicle the twentieth century. Martel's La bolsa (1891) initiates, and Dorfman's Reader (1995) concludes, a study of the white-collar citizens of Buenos Aires and Montevideo in their daytime habitat: the office. The literary background is the European literature of bureaucracy: Balzac, Galdós, Gogol, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Kafka; the theoretical approach is through the sociologists Max Weber and C. Wright Mills; the historical context is the twentieth century: the decline of European power and the ascendency of the USA; two World Wars; the Wall Street crash; communism and fascism. Through the eyes of Arlt, Benedetti, Campodónico, Cortázar, De Castro, Denevi, Fernández, Marechal, Mariani, Martínez Estrada, Onetti and Ricci, we observe life on both sides of the River Plate, as the two countries succumb to polarisation, repression and, eventually, military dictatorship. This is the twentieth century, viewed by a bewildered, frequently anguished participant: the person at the next desk. PAUL R. JORDAN lectures in Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 May 2023).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781855661264
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781846154478/type/BOOK
