'A novelist of immense power ... uncompromising and original' Colm Toibin'I can feel the passage of time, as though it were coursing through my veins, along with my blood...'One June day in 1955 Alejandra, last of a noble yet decaying Argentinian dynasty, shoots her father, locks herself up with his body, and sets fire to them both. What caused this act of insanity? Does the answer lie with Martin, her troubled lover, Bruno, the writer who worshipped her mother, or with her father Fernando himself, demonic creator of the strange 'Report on the Blind'? Their lives entwine in Ernesto Sabato's dark epic of passion, philosophy and paranoia in Buenos Aires.'Bewitched, baroque, monumental' Newsweek
Framed as the confession of a tormented outcast who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him, Ernesto Sabato's The Tunnel has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by writers such as Albert
El túnel es la mejor introducción al universo prodigioso de Sabato; un clásico una historia sobre el drama del hombre arrojado en el sinsentido más doloroso: la conciencia
An introduction to the work of the Argentine author enhances this fictional interpretation of the culture and society of Argentina and Sabato's intensely personal vision of what it means to be an Arge
Godine first published this towering work of Latin American literature in 1981, and is now reissuing it with a new introduction.Often mentioned in the same breath as Borges, Sabato was praised by Camu
One of the great short novels of the twentieth century—in an edition marking the 100th anniversary of the author's birth. An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was championed by Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, and Graham Greene upon its publication in 1948 and went on to become an international bestseller. At its center is an artist named Juan Pablo Castel, who recounts from his prison cell his murder of a woman named Maria Iribarne. Obsessed from the moment he sees her examining one of his paintings, Castel fantasizes for months about how they might meet again. When he happens upon her one day, a relationship develops that convinces him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia leads him to destroy the one thing he truly cares about.
