A review by huerca_armada
The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt

3.0

Arlt's novel is less of a story about its titular characters and more about its main protagonist, Augosto Remo Erdosain. Tackling issues of intense alienation, revolutionary ideology, and the path to power, Erdosain is an excellent vehicle for the look into the deprivations that modernity brings. The only thing that mars this book is perhaps some slight issues with the translation that I read, giving some of the characters' dialogue a stilted, flat affect; there is also a bit of intense filler at certain points that is hit or miss without also exploring Arlt's sequel to this novel, the Flamethrowers.