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  • And if Bollywood can produce an Indian Bride and Prejudice, wouldn't it be great to transport Elizabeth and Darcy to a conventillo -- a tenement -- in Buenos Aires?

    Patrizia Chen: Jane Austen and Tango 2010

  • We see this when Pinzón’s Etl (translated here as Ethel) ponders how people live beyond the wall separating her family’s miserable rooms in a conventillo from the neighboring bourgeois apartment house complete with an elevator:

    Mimi Pinz��n. 2009

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  • MaryW commented on the word conventillo

    A tenement in Buenos Aires. From a novel set mostly in 1913-1918:

    When he arrived, he'd planned to wait until he could afford an apartment of his own, however humble, to marry. Over time, he saw how absurd this notion was in a city that had swelled with so many immigrants seeking a chance at life that rents had soared and sharing a conventillo with one bathroom and one kitchen for sixty people or more had become a normal way of life.
    Carolina de Robertis, The Gods of Tango (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), p. 62
    In the conventillos—wich earned their name, she'd learned, from their cramped spare nature, like the convents that house nuns and monks—there was always the lang of water tubs, the drag of crates across scuffed tiles, the bristling dutet of a man fighting with his wife, the shout or squeal or hungrey moan of children, mothers' reproaches and lullabies and threats, . . .
    Id., p. 81

    September 4, 2016