by Ernesto Sabato · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789507313813
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El Túnel is a novel by the Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, published in 1948. Narrated in the first person by Juan Pablo Castel, an obsessed painter, the story explores themes of loneliness, lack of communication, and the desperate search for human connection. Castel recounts his encounter with María Iribarne, a woman he believes understands him, and his subsequent obsession with her, which leads him to a tragic outcome. The novel is a deep psychological analysis of the mind of an isolated and tormented individual.
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".
