Roberto Arlt Archive Disappointment City: Roberto Arlt’s 1930 Trip to Rio de Janeiro Author: Lucas Iberico Lozada | Jan222018 Categories: Critical Essays, Longform No comments When I moved to Rio de Janeiro and read Arlt for the first time, I began to grasp that the distance between expectation and reality, between hope and disappointment, animates and haunts the experience of the outsider to a foreign country.