Open AccessWalking the city and the neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires. Argentine Literature in the 1920s and 1930s
Author(s) -
Pablo Baisotti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
theory in action
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1937-0237
pISSN - 1937-0229
DOI - 10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2136
Subject(s) - viewpoints , modernity , poetry , period (music) , diversity (politics) , variety (cybernetics) , sociology , gender studies , history , art , aesthetics , literature , anthropology , political science , visual arts , law , artificial intelligence , computer science
This article presents an overview of Buenos Aires, city and neighbourhoods, from the viewpoints of several authors who participated in the literary life of the 1920s and 1930s, portraying the evolution of modernity and the social question –inequalities. Novels, short stories, poems and magazines from the period in question were used to frame these issues and unravel the objectives set. It concludes by exposing the variety and diversity of the city and the neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, as well as the people who inhabited them and the Buenos Aires literary currents of the period, headed by Jorge Luis Borges, on the one hand (Florida group), and Roberto Arlt (Boedo group), on the other.