by Ernesto Sabato · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432216473
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«Sobre héroes y tumbas» is the novel by Ernesto Sabato, published by Booket in paperback (544 pages, in Spanish).
Martín, son of a failed painter and a street woman, meets Alejandra Vidal in Lezama Park, a young woman from a decadent oligarchic family. Their relationship becomes tortuous and drags them into a world of tensions. The novel includes the «Informe sobre ciegos» and deals with lack of communication, solitude, and the conflict between good and evil.
Second novel by Ernesto Sabato, originally published in 1961 and a continuation of the universe of «El túnel». It received the Biblioteca Breve Prize (1964) and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (1970).
For readers of 20th-century Argentine and Latin American literature, especially those seeking psychological and existential novels.
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".
