The Author in the Office: Narrative Writing in Twentieth-Century Argentina and Uruguay

P. R. Jordan

doi:10.1017/9781846154478

The Author in the Office

Narrative Writing in Twentieth-Century Argentina and Uruguay

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P. R. Jordan, University of Sheffield

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: May 2023
Print publication year:: 2006
Online ISBN:: 9781846154478
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846154478

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies
Series:: Monografías A

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Office-based writers from both sides of the River Plate chronicle the twentieth century.

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Narrative Writing in Twentieth-Century Argentina and Uruguay

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

1 - Introduction: Writing in and of the Era of the Typewriter
pp 1-25

2 - Office Life in 1920s’ Buenos Aires and Montevideo: Visions of Purgatory
pp 26-55

3 - The 1930s: From Social Criticism to Creative Disillusion
pp 56-80

4 - Mario Benedetti: Uruguay, the Office Republic
pp 81-125

5 - 1940s’ Argentina: From Alienation to Bureaucratic Nightmare
pp 126-164

6 - Argentine Bureaucracy from the 1950s to the 1970s: The Enemy
pp 165-194

7 - Uruguay from the 1960s: Bureaucracies of the Absurd
pp 195-223

8 - Conclusion: Globalisation and the Writer-functionary
pp 224-228

Select Bibliography
pp 229-232

Index
pp 233-237

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