The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato - ISBN: 9780141194547
Paperback
Obsession, paranoia, and murder: a descent into a tortured mind.

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    6 May 2011

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Summary

Sabato’s wonderful noir detective novel with a new introduction by Colm Toibin in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time.

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 he…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141194547
ISBN-10:0141194545
Author:Ernesto Sabato
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:6 May 2011
Weight:126g
Dimensions:197mm x 127mm x 11mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘An existentialist classic … Retains a chilling, memorable power’

‘An existentialist classic … Retains a chilling, memorable power’ * The New York Times Book Review *
‘Sabato captures the intensity of passions run into uncharted passages where love promises not tranquillity, but danger’ * Los Angeles Times *
Heralded by Albert Camus and Thomas Mann and widely translated, “The Tunnel” is the brief, obsessive, sometimes delirious confession of a convicted murderer. – Robert Coover * New York Times Book Review *

About The Author

Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato (b. June 24, 1911) was born in Rojas, a small town in Buenos Aires Province. He read physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, attended the Sorbonne in Paris, and worked at the Curie Institute. After World War II, he lost faith in science and began writing fiction.

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