kvmmore.blogg.se - El túnel by Ernesto Sábato

Too, he delivers several satisfying satirical thrusts at the vagaries of the life of the urban intellectual that retain a remarkable contemporary resonance." - Christopher T.

"If, in the time since its publication, some of the rhetoric of this novel, written in the years of existentialism's full flower, strikes the ear as curiously overwrought, the power of Sabato's story remains.

"(T)his brief, fierce breakthrough novel (.) belongs among the existential landmarks of postwar fiction." - Boyd Tonkin, The Independent.His pithy misanthropy offers readers an uncomfortable, reckless pleasure as the Buenos Aires art scene (.), the city's postal service and people who give to charity all come in for a caustic kicking." - Anthony Cummins,The Guardian "A perverse effect of the candour in Castel's retrospective account is that it almost makes you forget he's a murderer (and a rapist, it becomes clear).

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