The Tunnel by Ernesto Sábato (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Tunnel by Ernesto Sábato, which is widely recognised as one of the greatest Latin American novels of the 20th century. Its protagonist and narrator, Juan Pablo Castel, is tormented by loneliness, isolation and obsessive jealousy, and struggles to form meaningful relationships with the people around him. His misanthropy and solitude mark him out as a classic antihero, and the novel raises profound questions about human relationships and the failures of communication that they inevitably entail. As well as his novels The Tunnel, On Heroes and Tombs and The Angel of Darkness, Sábato was also known for his thoughtful, perceptive essays and staunch opposition to the military junta that ruled his native Argentina between 1976 and 1983.
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ARGENTINIAN NOVELIST, ESSAYIST AND PAINTER
Born in Rojas (Argentina) in 1911.
Died in Santo Lugares (Argentina) in 2011.
Literary awards:
Miguel de Cervantes Prize, 1984
Premio Gabriela Mistral, 1984
Jerusalem Prize, 1989
Menéndez Pelayo International Prize, 1997
Notable works:
The Tunnel (1948), novel
On Heroes and Tombs (1961), novel
The Writer in the Catastrophe of Our Time (1963), essay
The Angel of Darkness (1974), novel
The Argentinian novelist, essayist and painter Ernesto Sábato was born in Rojas, Buenos Aires Province, to a family of Italian immigrants. He received a doctorate in physics from the National University of La Plata in 1937, and was subsequently awarded a grant to complete postdoctoral work at the Curie Laboratory in Paris. There, he met a number of members of the Surrealist movement and eventually decided to leave