Arlt steals from the literary tradition, as with his theft of elements of the picaresque, but he also turns his back on it, betrays it, gives it a figurative middle finger, by opening up his text to the cacophonous demotic of the Buenos Aires streets.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 02:39 The Picaresque, Pulp Fiction, and New Forms of Representation05:35 Questions 11:28 The Politics and Aesthetics of Betrayal21:00 Credits

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