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The Tunnel

Ernesto Sabato

  • 151 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1948
  • 120 editions
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1 About this book

Juan Pablo Castel is a tormented and insane painter who falls for Maria, a woman he meets at an art exhibition. She is married to a blind man -the subject of Sabato and Saramago's obsession- and has a house in the countryside. She is also the mistress of her own cousin. Castel discovers this and goes mad with jealousy. We have no way to know the truth, because everything in the novel happens inside Castel's mind.

Good for readers who want: a mystery and a short read.

  • Psychology
  • Crimes against
  • Murderers
  • Murder
  • Mystery
  • Crime
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Relationship addiction

2 About Ernesto Sabato

1911–2011

Ernesto Sabato (Spanish:; June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) 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".

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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