...
Show More
" Everything here is full of nostalgia, maybe because there are few countries in the world where this feeling is so repetitive.
To the first Spaniards, because they missed their homeland from afar, then to the Indians, because they longed for the lost freedom, the very meaning of their existence ; and finally, to immigrants, because they missed their homeland, their wonderful habits, the Christmas holidays next to the fire ".
It is a book I read before " The Tunnel ", but to which I had some reluctance to make a synthesis, maybe you will understand .
" Héros et Tombes " - is a tunnel-book, with an obsessive background, and that arouses obsessions. It is dense and intense, misty and distressing, it is not for every mood.
It can be seen that he came out of an intellectual and spiritual ferment in great tumult.
A dynamic book, in which one thing and its opposite are tried and presented as options. A book full of devils, of devil's advocates, and of beings tormented by them, who try, in their own way, to find not a mausoleum, but à shelter .
To make everything even more complicated, towards the middle of the novel, Sabato inserts a completely strange, disconcerting section - Report of the Blind - a confession that describes in détail borderline experiences that would accumulate evidence for the existence of a conspiracy of the blind - the source of Absolute evil. (...) This part of the book , revolting through all sorts of radicalisms, continues with a series of apocalyptic visions and nightmare passages, all rendered from the perspective of a paranoid. It functions as a kind of black heart of the book, in which all the poisons circulating in the life and thoughts of the characters are metabolized.
There is also a love story, which consolidates a mystifying mythology of the troubled woman, a woman who disturbs, a destructive and self-destructive being.
Sometimes, over the years, such books arouse the fear of the one who was overwhelmed by them at the first reading, of the one who introduced them into his system maybe at more immature ages.
As a memory, this novel stuck in my mind as a collage of ghostly images of Buenos Aires, the bitterness of a shattering sad love story, and a taste for ultimate discussions, always nocturnal.
To the first Spaniards, because they missed their homeland from afar, then to the Indians, because they longed for the lost freedom, the very meaning of their existence ; and finally, to immigrants, because they missed their homeland, their wonderful habits, the Christmas holidays next to the fire ".
It is a book I read before " The Tunnel ", but to which I had some reluctance to make a synthesis, maybe you will understand .
" Héros et Tombes " - is a tunnel-book, with an obsessive background, and that arouses obsessions. It is dense and intense, misty and distressing, it is not for every mood.
It can be seen that he came out of an intellectual and spiritual ferment in great tumult.
A dynamic book, in which one thing and its opposite are tried and presented as options. A book full of devils, of devil's advocates, and of beings tormented by them, who try, in their own way, to find not a mausoleum, but à shelter .
To make everything even more complicated, towards the middle of the novel, Sabato inserts a completely strange, disconcerting section - Report of the Blind - a confession that describes in détail borderline experiences that would accumulate evidence for the existence of a conspiracy of the blind - the source of Absolute evil. (...) This part of the book , revolting through all sorts of radicalisms, continues with a series of apocalyptic visions and nightmare passages, all rendered from the perspective of a paranoid. It functions as a kind of black heart of the book, in which all the poisons circulating in the life and thoughts of the characters are metabolized.
There is also a love story, which consolidates a mystifying mythology of the troubled woman, a woman who disturbs, a destructive and self-destructive being.
Sometimes, over the years, such books arouse the fear of the one who was overwhelmed by them at the first reading, of the one who introduced them into his system maybe at more immature ages.
As a memory, this novel stuck in my mind as a collage of ghostly images of Buenos Aires, the bitterness of a shattering sad love story, and a taste for ultimate discussions, always nocturnal.