El amor brujo ("Love The Magician") is the last novel by Argentinian writer Roberto Arlt, published in 1932. It tells the story of an affair between a married man called Balder and a music student called Irene in Buenos Aires, shortly before the 1930 Argentine coup d'état. [1] It is dedicated to Arlt's wife. [2]
El amor brujo has been described as "strongly political and nihilistic: intimate relationships are portrayed as being largely fantasy or lie". [3]
The novel was not well received critically or popularly, and is the least-known of Arlt's four novels. [1] [3]