Arts
In collaboration with the Cervantes Institute in London we continue with our series Writers in Search of A Reader. This time we discuss, in front of a live audience, the incredible singularity and legacy of cult Argentinian writer Roberto Arlt. Rediscovered in his own country just two decades after his early death in 1942, Arlt has the geniality of a true autodidact who by sheer neccesity became a poor man's Rennaissance figure: chronicler, reporter, playwright, inventor, short story teller and novelist. His four novels are now classics in the Latinamerican literary cannon particularly his masterpiece Los siete locos -The Seven Madmen. We invited Arlt translator Nick Caistor together with illustrator and cartoonist Oscar Grillo to discuss his indisputable originality and to explain why he is an obligatory reading for any lover of literature in any language. With Juan Toledo. Listen to our previous programme in Spanish on Arlt