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Sabato's dark, philosophical novel is woven around a violent crime committed by Alejandra, the daughter of a prominent Argentinian family. Alejandra's act entwines the lives of three men: her father, Fernanda Vidal, a man who believes himself hunted by a secret organization of the blind, her troubled lover, Martin and Bruno, a writer who loved her mother. Exploring the tumult of Buenos Aires in the 1950s, On Heroes and Tombs leads its reader into a world of passion, philosophy and paranoia.
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... Sabato's first novel El Túnel (translated as 'The Outsider' or 'The Tunnel'), written in 1948, is framed as the confession of the painter Juan Pablo Castel, who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him. Sabato's novels were praised by authors such as Albert Camus and Graham Greene.
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Tunnel with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Tunnel by Ernesto Sábato, which is widely recognised as one of the greatest Latin American novels of the 20th century. Its protagonist and narrator, Juan Pablo Castel, is tormented by loneliness, isolation and obsessive jealousy, and struggles to form meaningful relationships with the people around him. His misanthropy and solitude mark him out as a classic antihero, and the novel raises profound questions about human relationships and the failures of communication that they inevitably entail. As well as his novels The Tunnel, On Heroes ...