The tunnel

by Ernesto Sabato, Margaret Sayers Peden

Paperback, 138 pages

English language

Published April 20, 1988 by Available Press, Ballantine.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-35192-0
OCLC Number:: 17987789

(22 reviews)

Juan Pablo Castel is a tormented and insane painter who falls for Maria, a woman he meets at an art exhibition. She is married to a blind man -the subject of Sabato and Saramago's obsession- and has a house in the countryside. She is also the mistress of her own cousin. Castel discovers this and goes mad with jealousy. We have no way to know the truth, because everything in the novel happens inside Castel's mind.

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4 stars

This was a great book, and very unique. In the beginning, it reminded me of a much darker version of "Catcher in the Rye". The Spanish in this book was easier for me to understand than the last book I read "Como Agua Para Chocolate", but that might just be due to an extra month of studying.

I look forward to reading more from Ernesto Sabato.