The Flamethrowers (Arlt novel)

{{Short description|1931 novel by Roberto Arlt}}

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| author = Roberto Arlt

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| country = Slovenia

| language = English

| genre = Novel

| publisher = corona\samizdat

| release_date = 2021

| media_type = Print (paperback)

| pages = 310 pp (first edition, paperback)

| isbn = 9780965475693

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| preceded_by = The Seven Madmen

| followed_by = El amor brujo

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The Flamethrowers (Spanish: Los lanzallamas)Viviane Mahieux. Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America: The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-OqhS6g2_sUC&pg=PA43 Page 43]. is a novel by the Argentine writer Roberto Arlt, that continues the story of Remo Erdosain, a lowlife criminal who, plagued by vital anxieties, joins a secret society, and was first introduced in the novel Los siete locos.Philip Ward (ed). "Arlt, Roberto". The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1978. Page 33. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FYYYAAAAIAAJ Google Books].

The book was published by Editorial Claridad in Buenos Aires in 1931.[https://books.google.com/books?id=OZ9DAAAAYAAJ Google Books] It was included in the second volume of Novelas completas y cuentos (English: Complete Novels and Stories) published by Compañía General Fabril Editora in Buenos Aires in 1963."The World of Roberto Arlt" (1962) Stechert-Hafner Book News, volumes 17-19, page 98 [https://books.google.com/books?id=pl7qAAAAMAAJ Google Books]Martin Seymour-Smith. Macmillan Guide to Modern World Literature. Macmillan. 1985. Page 924. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YI9mAAAAMAAJ Google Books]Adrian Taylor Kane (ed). The Natural World in Latin American Literatures. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2U5Et6qfEe8C&pg=PA63 p 63].Roberto Arlt. Novelas Completas y Cuentos. Compañía General Fabril Editora. Buenos Aires. 1963. Volume 2. Google Books: [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3ItAAAAIAAJ] [https://books.google.com/books?id=KMMSAAAAYAAJ] It was published by Compañía General Fabril Editora in Buenos Aires in 1968 and 1972,Rubén Gallo. México D F: lecturas para paseantes. Turner. 2005. Page 363. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WW1uAAAAMAAJ Google Books][https://books.google.com/books?id=PEpCAAAAYAAJ Google Books] and by Editorial Losada in Buenos Aires in about 1977.Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies 1981. G K Hall & Co. Boston, Massachusetts. Vols 1 to 3. Page 108. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4asnAQAAIAAJ Google Books][https://books.google.com/books?id=-0lCAAAAYAAJ Google Books] It was published by Bruguera in Barcelona in 1980.Felipe B Pedraza Jiménez. Manual de literatura hispanoamericana. Cénlit Ediciones. 1991. Page 553. See also passim.

The book was translated into French by Lucien Mercier and published under the title Les lance-flammes by Belfond in Paris in 1983.Christian Roinat. Romans et nouvelles hispano-américains: guide des œuvres et des auteurs. L'Harmattan. 1992. Page 39. [https://books.google.com/books?id=y3IZAAAAIAAJ Google Books] It was translated into German by Bruno Keller and published under the title Die Flammenwerfer by Insel Verlag in 1973.Rita Gnutzmann. Roberto Arlt, innovación y compromiso: la obra narrativa y periodística. Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida. 2004. Page 205. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8PpIAAAAYAAJ Google Books] It was translated into Italian by Luigi Pellisari and published under the title I lanciafiamme by Bompiani in Milan in 1974.(1975) [https://books.google.com/books?id=tU46AQAAIAAJ 27] Libri e riviste d'Italia 470; (1975) [https://books.google.com/books?id=py3gAAAAMAAJ 18] Italian Books and Periodicals The novel was translated into English by Larry Riley as The Flamethowers and published in 2021 by corona\samizdat (Slovenia), with an introduction by the press's publisher Rick Harsch.

It has been said that Los lanzallamas is title of the second installment of a single novel, the first instalment having been published in 1929 under the title Los siete locos.Aden W Hayes, "Reality and the Novel - The Case of Roberto Arlt" (1980) [https://books.google.com/books?id=gGRfAAAAMAAJ 21] Romance Notes 48; see also p 49(1981) Latin American Literature & Arts Review, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AaJoAAAAMAAJ issues 28-33], page 28. or an "unofficial" sequel to, Los siete locos.Kessel Schwartz. A New History of Spanish American Fiction: Social concern, universalism, and the new novel. University of Miami Press. 1972. Page 217. [https://books.google.com/books?id=n11dAAAAMAAJ Google Books] Nevertheless, contrary opinions have also been stated.The Arizona Quarterly (1979) [https://books.google.com/books?id=khkT86yFb0cC vols 34-35], p 178

The Flamethrowers has been called a "fully realized" masterpiece.Frank Northen Magill. Cyclopedia of World Authors. Third Edition, Revised. Salem Press. 1997. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gMg3AAAAMAAJ Volume 1]. Page 91."Roberto Arlt: Argentine Novelist" in Notable Latino Writers. Salem Press. 2006. [https://books.google.com/books?id=TkAOAQAAMAAJ Volume 1]. Page 74 at page 77. Characters in the book include Erdosain,Bryan Ryan. "Arlt, Roberto (Godofredo Christophersen) 1900-1942". Hispanic Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. Second Edition. Gale Research. 1991. Page 39 at page 40. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xYQYAAAAIAAJ Google Books]. HipolitaJelena O Krstovic. Hispanic Literature Criticism: Allende to Jiménez. Gale Research. 1994. Pages 118 to 121. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YqMRAQAAMAAJ Google Books]. See also passim. and Arturo Haffner.Edmundo Paz-Soldán and Debra A Castillo (eds). Latin American Literature and Mass Media. Garland Publishing. New York and London. 2001. (Hispanic Issues, volume 22). Pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=CCkKxJ_FbdMC&pg=PA148 148] and 150.