Roberto Arlt

Roberto Arlt was born in Buenos Aires on 2 April 1900, according to escritores.org, the son of Karl Arlt, who came from Posen, and of a mother from Trieste. Expelled from school as a child, he taught himself and did every kind of job, from bookshop clerk to brickworks labourer; he filed a patent for rubber-reinforced stockings, which were never sold. From 1928 he wrote a column in the newspaper El Mundo that the public eagerly awaited. He died in Buenos Aires on 26 July 1942.

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• NovelThe Seven MadmenLos siete locosRoberto Arlt · 1929LiteraturePublic domain