''El amor brujo'' ("Love The Magician") is the last novel by

Argentinian Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or ( feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, ...

writer

Roberto Arlt Roberto Arlt (April 26, 1900 – July 26, 1942) was an Argentine novelist, storyteller, playwright, journalist and inventor. Biography He was born Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt in Buenos Aires on April 26, 1900. His parents were bo ...

, published in 1932. It tells the story of an affair between a married man called Balder and a music student called Irene in

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, shortly before the

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. It is dedicated to Arlt's wife.

Style

''El amor brujo'' has been described as "strongly political and nihilistic: intimate relationships are portrayed as being largely fantasy or lie".

Reception

The novel was not well received critically or popularly, and is the least-known of Arlt's four novels.

References

Works

* * * Spanish-language novels 1932 Argentine novels {{Argentina-stub