Ernesto Sabato

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Ernesto Sábato (born June 24, 1911, at Rojas, a tiny town in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine writer of Italian and Arbëreshë (Italian Albanian) descent. He began his studies at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where he earned a Ph.D. in Physics. He then attended the Sorbonne in Paris and worked at the Curie Institute. After World War II, he lost faith in science and started writing.

He published his first novel "El Túnel" (translated as "The Outsider" or "The Tunnel"). Written in 1948, this novel is told as the confession of the painter Juan Pablo Castel, who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him. Throughout the novel Castel questions his actions and those of others. As narrator, Castel offers a detailed expose on why he killed his lover, María Iribarne. Authors such as Albert Camus and Graham Greene particularly lauded Sabato's novels.

By request of president Raúl Alfonsín, he presided over the CONADEP commission that investigated the fate of the desaparecidos during the Dirty War of the 1970s. The result of these findings, published under the title, Nunca Más, was released in 1984.

More recently, on January 26, 2006, Ernesto Sábato, joined other internationally renowned figures such as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Benedetti, Thiago de Mello, Eduardo Galeano, Carlos Monsiváis, Pablo Armando Fernández Jorge Enrique Adoum, Pablo Milanés, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Mayra Montero and Ana Lydia Vega, in demanding sovereignty for Puerto Rico and joining the Latin American and Caribbean Congress for the Independence of Puerto Rico, which approved a resolution favoring the island-nation's right to assert its independence, as ratified unanimously by political parties from hailing from twenty two Latin American countries in November of 2006 [1]. García Márquez's demand for the recognition of Puerto Rico's independence was obtained at the behest of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP).

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Novels 1.2 Essays 1.3 Other works

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

• El Túnel. 1948 (translated by Harriet de Onis in 1950 as The Outsider)
• Sobre Héroes y Tumbas. 1961 (translated by Helen R. Lane in 1981 as On Heroes and Tombs.)
• Abaddón el Exterminador. 1974 (translated by Andrew Hurley in 1991 as The angel of darkness.)

[edit] Essays

• Uno y el Universo.
• Hombres y Engranajes, 1951
• Heterodoxia.
• El caso Sábato. Torturas y libertad de prensa. Carta Abierta al General Aramburu.
• El otro rostro del peronismo. 1956 Carta Abierta a Mario Amadeo.
• El escritor y sus fantasmas.
• El Tango, discusión y clave.
• Romance de la muerte de Juan Lavalle. Cantar de Gesta.
• Pedro Henríquez Ureña
• Tres aproximaciones a la literatura de nuestro tiempo: Robbe-Grillet, Borges, Sartre.
• Eduardo Falú (with León Benarós).
• Diálogos (with Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Orlando Barone).
• Apologías y Rechazos.
• Los libros y su misión en la liberación e integración de la América Latina.
• Entre la letra y la sangre. Conversaciones con Carlos Catania.
• Antes del fin, 1998 Memorias.
• La Resistencia, 2000

[edit] Other works

• Nunca más, CONADEP, 1984
• "Obra completa"