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  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. Introduction: Writing in and of the Era of the Typewriter; 2. Office Life in 1920s' Buenos Aires and Montevideo: Visions of Purgatory; 3. The 1930s: From Social Criticism to Creative Disillusion; 4. Mario Benedetti: Uruguay, the Office Republic; 5. 1940s' Argentina: From Alienation to Bureaucratic Nightmare; 6. Argentine Bureaucracy from the 1950s to the 1970s: The Enemy within; 7. Uruguay from the 1960s: Bureaucracies of the Absurd; Conclusion: Globalisation and the Writer-functionary; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.