Roberto Arlt, un “cronista universal”

The article explores how the column that Roberto Arlt configured in 1937, after his trip as a correspondent throughout Spain and Africa, works within El Mundo as a kind of "hinge" wich connects the cable section’s information material (which was focused on current’s warike news) with the literary notes that were published on page six; thus converting the author of the famous "Aguafuertes porteñas" into a "universal chronicler". We analyze the way Arlt’s work is linked both with the stylized productions of some recognized writers who published "on the sidelines" of the news’ section, and the notes of certain correspondents who sent their war´s impressions from the battle fronts.