El Tunel by Ernesto Sabato “It is enough to tell you that I am Juan Pablo Castel, the painter who killed Maria Iribarne…”
El Tunel by Ernesto Sabato
“It is enough to tell you that I am Juan Pablo Castel, the painter who killed Maria Iribarne…”
Wow…no spoiler alert, nothing.
And there you have it: you know from the start:
Who dunnit, who is dead.
Why read on, without the alert?
Well, on the second page you will be shocked…again.
“…in a concentration camp, a pianist complained that he was hungry and they gave him a rat to eat. But Alive.”
The feel of the book is very modern. There is a Society of Psychoanalysis and talk about anal masochism”” and words with a genitor-urinary” character.
The heroes are cultivated people and discuss the way Tolstoy or Chekhov should be spelled- I guess in Spanish, since we are in Argentina.
One other intriguing, interesting aspect was the way the author talks about critics, in his case those who analyze his paintings, for our hero is a painter; we learned that from the first sentence.
Why do people allow critics to talk about something they know nothing about?!
After all, nobody is allowed to express views about a surgery, without a surgeon’s training.
That is an excellent point.
Then there is a short story within the story, of a man who has a mother, wife and a child. One night, his mother is killed. After some time, the wife is murdered and finally the child. He decides to investigate on his own. After a logical interpretation, he finds that the killer must come on this day at this hour to kill him.
But the assassin doesn’t come so to say…our man understands that the killer is already there…it is himself. He commits suicide.
Apart from some of these unexpected challenges and turns of events, I was not thrilled by a book rated with five stars by one of our men of letters. I respect him and his opinion and can only conclude that there’s yet another probably excellent book which was kinda’lost on me.
Not completely, but it was not exhilarating.
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