by Ernesto Sabato · Editorial Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789507310331
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«Sobre héroes y tumbas» is the novel by Ernesto Sabato, published by Editorial Seix Barral in paperback (552 pages, in Spanish).
The novel reflects on recent Argentine history with echoes of past horrors and greatness. It combines surrealism and the tradition of the bildungsroman in portraying a family's decline over time, in a vein compared to Faulkner and García Márquez. It includes the episode «Informe sobre ciegos».
Work originally published in 1961. Definitive edition in the Biblioteca Breve collection from Seix Barral.
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".
