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 de la nada
Juan Pablo Castel es un pintor recluido en prisión por el asesinato de María Iribarne. Durante su encierro rememora la cadena de acontecimientos que lo llevaron a perder el control, a convertirse en un hombre poseído por una insalvable soledad, la de la ausencia de la mujer amada hasta el límite, la del engaño que ha convertido su corazón en un pedazo duro y frío de hielo y ha colocado entre sus manos el cuchillo que pone fin al sufrimiento.
Técnicamente perfecta y de lectura apasionante, El túnel excede el negativismo ácido de Sartre y la frenética huida hacia el vacío que plantea El extranjero de Camus, pero tiene de esos dos maestros literarios la impronta genial que hace de la escritura una radiografía del alma atormentada.

El Túnel: Novela (Esenciales) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Sábato, Ernesto

Contemporary

Rayo

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 Camus and Graham Greene. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Margaret Sayers Peden with an introduction by Colm Tóibín. Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a relationship was formed which swiftly convinced him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia would lead him to destroy the one thing he truly cared about... Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011) was born in Rojas, a small town in Buenos Aires Province. He read physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, attended the Sorbonne in Paris, and worked at the Curie Institute. After World War II, he lost faith in science and began writing fiction. If you enjoyed The Tunnel, you might like Albert Camus' The Outsider, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Sabato captures the intensity of passions run into uncharted passages where love promises not tranquillity, but danger' Los Angeles Times 'An existentialist classic ... Retains a chilling, memorable power' The New York Times Book Review

The Tunnel

Penguin Classic

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On Heroes and Tombs (Penguin Modern Classics)

Literary

Penguin Classics

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 María 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. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Tunnel (Penguin Classics)

United States

"The Tunnel" is the confession of Juan Pablo Castel, a painter and convicted murderer, who tells how his tormented love for Maria Irebarne compelled him to stab her to death. With the relentless logic of obsession, he seals himself within his paranoia and is driven deeper into his "tunnel" with no light, no end, only a descent into hellish isolation. This book is the first of a trilogy and the feature film of "The Tunnel" will be premiered in 1988 in America (spring) and Europe (autumn). Ernesto Sabato was born in Argentina and in 1985 won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (equivalent to the Nobel Prize for literature in Hispanic languages).

Peden, Margaret Sayers

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

El tnel: By Ernesto Sbato (Modern world literature series)

Harrap

On Heroes and Tombs

Portrays the search for a remedy to the despair caused by political repression and the struggle against a historical precedent that destroys free will in a story set in Argentina during Peron's first years

Ballantine Books

"When it was first published in Spanish, THE TUNNEL won the applause of Thomas Mann and Albert Camus and was described as an existentialist classic," reminded The New York Times Book Review, in its recent review. Indeed, THE TUNNEL is one of the most highly regarded short novels of the twentieth century. Since its first publication in 1948, it has been translated into most of the major languages of the world. In the fresh, compelling, and critically acclaimed translation by Margaret Sayers Peden, it is available for a whole new readership."The power of Sabato's story remains . . . . He delivers several satisfying satirical thrusts at the vagaries of the life of the urban intellectual that retain a remarkable contemporary resonance . . . . Sabato captures the intensity of passions run into uncharted passages where love promises not tranquility, but danger."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Tunnel (English and Spanish Edition)

The Writer in the Catastrophe of Our Time (Fiction and Series)

History & Criticism

Council Oaks Distribution

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 Camus and other major writers such as Thomas Mann, Graham Greene, Pablo Neruda, Salman Rushdie and Colm Toibin. He was an important political figure as well as a novelist, and exposed the state terrorism of Argentina's 'dirty war,' wrote about everything from metaphysics to tango. On Heroes and Tombs is his masterpiece. In his obituary in 2011, the New York Times wrote: In 1972, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda listed Mr. Sabato among the Latin American writers who displayed 'greater vitality and imagination than anything since the great Russian novels' of the19th century. On Heroes and Tombs, the story of a young man trying to find his way in life in Buenos Aires, is considered his most important work of fiction. But many people also know Mr. Sabato for his work in helping Argentina heal when democracy was restored in 1983 after seven years of military dictatorship. On Heroes and Tombs is woven around a violent crime: the scion of a prominent Argentinian family, Alejandra, shoots her father and burns herself alive over his corpse. The story shifts between perspectives to reveal the lives of those closest to her, telling of Martin, her troubled lover; Bruno, a writer who loved her mother; and Fernando, her father who believes himself hunted by a secret, international organization of the blind. Exploring the tumult of Buenos Aires in the 1950s, Heroes illuminates its characters against burning churches and corporate greed. An examination of Argentinian history and culture, it reveals the country at every level, leading

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El Túnel: Novela (Esenciales) (Spanish Edition)

The Tunnel

On Heroes and Tombs (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Tunnel (Penguin Classics)

The Tunnel

El tnel: By Ernesto Sbato (Modern world literature series)

On Heroes and Tombs

The Tunnel (English and Spanish Edition)

The Writer in the Catastrophe of Our Time (Fiction and Series)

On Heroes and Tombs