Versions of the river in Aguafuertes porteñas by Roberto Arlt

• Main Author: Pilar María Cimadevilla
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata 2019-07-01
• Series: Estudios de Teoría Literaria
• Subjects: Arlt; “Aguafuertes porteñas”; crónica; paisaje; pintura
• Online Access: http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/etl/article/view/2699

The proposal of this article is to study how in the big corpus of the notes titled “Aguafuertes porteñas” by Roberto Arlt there appears a series of chronicles dedicated to the coast of the River Río de la Plata. To do this, we will observe the way in which the images of the river that the chronicler configures in his texts respond to two different types of modulations of space that, at times, intersect: the picturesque river and the river associated with the world of harbor work. We will study these two views on the riverbank and analyze how these coastal landscapes interact with the work of two of the artists of the time who inserted the Río de la Plata as the protagonist of their productions and which are also mentioned explicitly in the work of Arlt: Raúl González Tuñón and Benito Quinquela Martín.