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Silvio becomes friends with Rengo, a marginal character, who works as a caretaker for cars in the fair of Flores. Certain intimacy seems to flourish between Silvio and Rengo. Rengo tells Silvio about his plan to steal from Vitri, the engineer's, house, who is the boss of Rengo's lover. Silvio accepts
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was adapted for cinema twice: by JosĂ© MarĂa
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The book is narrated in first person and is cleanly constructed. The apprenticeship of the protagonist, Silvio Astier, develops in four separate episodes. In the first, “The Band Of
Thieves,” Silvio, influenced by reading melodramas, and, perhaps more, by his deplorable position in society, founds
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In the second, “Work and days,” Silvio, after moving neighborhoods, finds work at a bookstore and moves to the house of don
Gaetano, the owner of the store. There he sees terrible scenes of meanness and suffers several humiliations. At the end he tries to burn the bookstore that he works in, but
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In the third, “Mad Toy,” Silvio tries to attend the School of
Aviation as a mechanic's apprentice. At first he is accepted, and the school directors are surprised at his brilliance, but later, suddenly, they expel him, because they say they do not need intelligent people, but brutes for work.
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the job. Later, almost mechanically, Silvio asks himself, “But what if I betray him?” Later, Silvio goes to see Vitri, betrays Rengo, who is arrested. Silvio has one final conversation with Vitri, in which he communicates his desire to move to the south of the country.
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first episode, fiction penetrates reality; the adventure novels are, at the same time, material and motive of the occurrences; life of the characters mimics the life of other characters, those of fiction inside of fiction.
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