The Seven Madmen - Roberto Arlt Wadsworth Jarrell Jacob has been identified as

Jacob has been identified as a “cubist poet

Clarke Award

The Deorhord introduces a world both familiar and strange: where ants could be monsters and panthers could be your friends

and blend[s] illustrations with philosophy

Originally published in French in 1957

The Seven Madmen - Roberto Arlt Wadsworth Jarrell Jacob has been identified asThe Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt, translated by Nick Caistor, introduction by Julio Cortazar ISBN 9781590179147 272 page paperback published by NYRB Classics *** A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature and a crucial work for Julio Cortzar, The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement. Then his wife leaves him and things only go downhill after that.