Author: Roberto Arlt
- Fiction
- Cátedra
- ISBN: 9788437605111
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Lluís Agustí

A hybrid of the picaresque and existential novel, and taking violence, anguish and the impossibility of progress or redemption as thematic elements, Arlt’s novel relates the formative years of Silvio Astier, which are marked by misery and by a series of constant errors and failures, that in the aggregate, constitute his life.