The Tunnel
A painter narrates from a cell how he fixed on the one visitor to his exhibition who stopped in front of the small window scene in the corner of a canvas everybody else walked past. He hunts her through Buenos Aires, learns she is María Iribarne and married to a blind man, and turns every hour she spends away from him into an interrogation. A landmark of Argentine existentialist fiction and the work by which Sábato is still chiefly read.
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