El amor brujo (novel)

El amor brujo ("Love The Magician") is the last novel by Argentinian writer Roberto Arlt, published in 1932. It tells the story of an affair between a married man called Balder and a music student called Irene in Buenos Aires, shortly before the 1930 Argentine coup d'état.[1] It is dedicated to Arlt's wife.[2]

Style

El amor brujo has been described as "strongly political and nihilistic: intimate relationships are portrayed as being largely fantasy or lie".[3]

Reception

The novel was not well received critically or popularly, and is the least-known of Arlt's four novels.[1][3]

References

1. Jordan 2014.
2. Shaw 2002, p. 79.
3. Jordan 1999, p. 66.

Works

• Jordan, Paul (1999). ""But my writing has nothing to do with Arlt's": Trace and Silence of Arlt in Onetti". In Gustavo San Román (ed.). Onetti and Others: Comparative Essays on a Major Figure in Latin American Literature. SUNY Press. pp. 65–82. ISBN 978-0-7914-4236-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Jordan, Paul (2014). "Alrt, Robert". In Smith, Verity (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Taylor & Francis. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-1-135-96033-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Shaw, Donald L. (2002). A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-85566-078-6.