ArltLos siete locos
Spanish · Roberto Arlt
Buenos Aires, written from underground and in a fever.
The opening, set exactly as it reads in the app.
Arlt writes Buenos Aires the way Dostoevsky wrote Petersburg: from underground, and in a fever. Los siete locos drags the humiliated Erdosain through a city of swindlers, cranks, and self-appointed prophets scheming a revolution out of sheer anguish. It is coarse where Borges is burnished, and far more alive for it: the great novel of modern dread in the Spanish language.
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- The text
- Los siete locos, Roberto Arlt
- Translation
- Public-domain Spanish (Arlt, d. 1942). English translation © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC.
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