Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Writing in and of the Era of the Typewriter
- 2 Office Life in 1920s’ Buenos Aires and Montevideo: Visions of Purgatory
- 3 The 1930s: From Social Criticism to Creative Disillusion
- 4 Mario Benedetti: Uruguay, the Office Republic
- 5 1940s’ Argentina: From Alienation to Bureaucratic Nightmare
- 6 Argentine Bureaucracy from the 1950s to the 1970s: The Enemy
- 7 Uruguay from the 1960s: Bureaucracies of the Absurd
- 8 Conclusion: Globalisation and the Writer-functionary
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Writing in and of the Era of the Typewriter
- 2 Office Life in 1920s’ Buenos Aires and Montevideo: Visions of Purgatory
- 3 The 1930s: From Social Criticism to Creative Disillusion
- 4 Mario Benedetti: Uruguay, the Office Republic
- 5 1940s’ Argentina: From Alienation to Bureaucratic Nightmare
- 6 Argentine Bureaucracy from the 1950s to the 1970s: The Enemy
- 7 Uruguay from the 1960s: Bureaucracies of the Absurd
- 8 Conclusion: Globalisation and the Writer-functionary
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- The Author in the OfficeNarrative Writing in Twentieth-Century Argentina and Uruguay, pp. 233 - 237Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2006