by Ernesto Sábato · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432223365
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«Sobre héroes y tumbas» is the novel by Argentine writer Ernesto Sábato, published by Seix Barral in paperback (461 pages, in Spanish).
The novel interweaves several plots: Martín's formation and the decline of the Vidal Olmos family, in Argentina during the last years of the first Peronism. Among its passages, it recreates the bombing of Plaza de Mayo on June 16, 1955, and the subsequent looting of churches, and explores themes such as madness, love, death, and the search for identity.
The work was originally published in 1961; this paperback edition dates from 1986. It belongs to Literature and Fiction.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Latin American narrative, as well as for those approaching 20th-century classics.
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".
