The author in the office : narrative writing in twentieth-century Argentina and Uruguay / / Paul R. Jordan

• Autore: Jordan Paul, Dr.
• Pubblicazione: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; ; Rochester, NY, : Tamesis, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 860.9/9820904
• Soggetto topico: Argentine prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Uruguayan prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Literature and society - Argentina; Literature and society - Uruguay; Social change in literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 May 2023).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-232) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. Introduction: Writing in and of the Era of the Typewriter; 2. Office Life in 1920s' Buenos Aires and Montevideo: Visions of Purgatory; 3. The 1930s: From Social Criticism to Creative Disillusion; 4. Mario Benedetti: Uruguay, the Office Republic; 5. 1940s' Argentina: From Alienation to Bureaucratic Nightmare; 6. Argentine Bureaucracy from the 1950s to the 1970s: The Enemy within; 7. Uruguay from the 1960s: Bureaucracies of the Absurd; Conclusion: Globalisation and the Writer-functionary; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, Galdós, 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, Campodónico, Cortázar, De Castro, Denevi, Fernández, Marechal, Mariani, Martínez 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The author in the office
• ISBN: 1-84615-447-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911008438803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Coleccion Tamesis. : Serie A, . -Monografias ; ; 226.