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Roberto Arlt
Roberto Arlt was an Argentine short-story writer, novelist, and playwright.
Arlt was born in poverty to his father Karl Arlt and his mother Ekatherine Iobstraibitzer. After being expelled from school at the age of eight, he learned what he could about literature and life on the streets. He worked at various times as a bookstore clerk, an apprentice to a tinsmith, a painter, a mechanic, a vulcanizer, a brick factory manager and a port worker before managing to get a job on a local newspaper. Arlt's talents for polemical journalism quickly revealed themselves, and he was soon writing a controversial ...
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