by Ernesto Sabato · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432216428
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The Tunnel is a novel by Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, published in 1948. Narrated in the first person by Juan Pablo Castel, a painter obsessed with a woman named María Iribarne, the story explores themes of loneliness, incommunication, and the search for truth. Castel, consumed by his jealousy and paranoia, isolates himself from the world and sinks into a spiral of self-destruction that culminates in an act of violence. The novel is a deep psychological analysis of the mind of a tormented man and a reflection on human nature and interpersonal relationships.
Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America". Upon his death El País dubbed him the "last classic writer in Argentine literature".
