by Ernesto Sábato · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408463955
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«Abaddón el exterminador» is the novel by Ernesto Sábato, published by Planeta in hardback (397 pages, in Spanish).
The novel closes Sábato's narrative trilogy, which began with El túnel and continued with Sobre héroes y tumbas. The author himself appears as a character in a Buenos Aires crossed by violence and anguish, and among testimonies, dreams and reflections the work explores evil, memory and the destiny of an era that seems headed for apocalypse.
This Planeta edition belongs to the Clásicos de Nuestro Tiempo collection. Abaddón el exterminador, originally published in 1974, received in 1976 the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger and the Premio Medici Italia.
Recommended for readers of twentieth-century Argentine literature and for those who want to complete Ernesto Sábato's trilogy.
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".
