The book "Mad Toy" by Roberto Arlt

The autobiographical novel "The Evil Toy" is a reflection of the chaos that reigns in Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 20th century. The hero of the novel, Silvio Astier, is an exiled, but intelligent, well-read young man who experiences a deep sense of humiliation from his poverty and tries to escape from its clutches at any cost. But after each futile attempt, when his plans collapse one after another, he falls into the arms of an even darker pessimism and, realizing that he cannot escape from the society that oppresses him, feels like a crazy toy of fate.