"Granada" (Aguafuertes Españolas): the art of fiction

Abstract

An exploration of the third chapter of an Arltian text which has received virtually no critical attention. I show how Arlt selects and reorders material from the aguafuertes which he wrote in Spain in the run up to the Civil War, and published in El Mundo in 1935-6. Aguafuertes españolas takes the form of a travelogue, although false and misrepresented identities – and hence fiction - are a prominent theme.