The Seven Madmen

Translated by Naomi Lindstrom. First English language edition. [ix] intr. + 271pp. Hardback in dust jacket. A fine copy. *** Roberto Arlt (1900 – 1942) was an Argentine novelist, playwright and journalist. The Seven Madmen was his second novel, originally published in 1929. Arlt has been massively influential on Latin American literature, including the 1960s “Boom” generation of writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. “Let’s say, modestly, that Arlt is Jesus Christ,” writes Roberto Bolano in his introduction to a reprint of The Seven Madmen. *** A beautiful first printing of this important Latin American novel.