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The Tunnel

The Tunnel

Author(s): Ernesto Sabato

Location(s): Buenos Aires

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1940s

Framed as the confession of a tormented outcast who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him, Ernesto Sabato’s The Tunnel has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by writers such as Albert Camus and Graham Greene.

Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a relationship was formed which swiftly convinced him of their mutual love. But Castel’s growing paranoia would lead him to destroy the one thing he truly cared about…

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