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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, Galdos, Gogol, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Kafka; the theor...
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253,01 DKK
Forlag
Tamesis Books
Udgivet
23 juni 2006
Længde
244 sider
Genrer
1DS
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781846154478
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, Galdos, 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, Campodonico, Cortazar, De Castro, Denevi, Fernandez, Marechal, Mariani, Martinez 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.