Book description
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 her one day, a relationship was formed which swiftly
convinced him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia
would lead him to destroy the one thing he truly cared about...
Sabato's first novel El T nel (translated as 'The Outsider'
or 'The Tunnel'), written in 1948, is framed as the confession of the
painter Juan Pablo Castel, who has murdered the only woman capable of
understanding him. Sabato's novels were praised by authors such as
Albert Camus and Graham Greene.
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.
