Author in the Office (eBook)

Narrative Writing in Twentieth-Century Argentina and Uruguay

P. R. Jordan (Autor)

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2006
244 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84615-447-8 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Monografías A
• Reihe/Serie: Monografías A
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Arlt • Benedetti • Buenos Aires • Bureaucracy • Campodónico • communism • Cortázar • C. Wright Mills • de Castro • Denevi • European Literature • European power • Fascism • Fernández • Hispanic Studies • historical context • Marechal • Mariani • Martínez Estrada • Max Weber • Military Dictatorship • Montevideo • office-based writers • Onetti • Paul R. Jordan • Polarisation • Repression • ricci • River Plate • Twentieth century • university of sheffield • USA • Wall Street Crash • World Wars
• ISBN-10: 1-84615-447-2 / 1846154472
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84615-447-8 / 9781846154478