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Juan Pablo Castel is a tormented and insane painter who falls for Maria, a woman he meets at an art exhibition. She is married to a blind man -the subject of Sabato and Saramago's obsession- and has a house in the countryside. She is also the mistress of her own cousin. Castel discovers this and goes mad with jealousy. We have no way to know the truth, because everything in the novel happens inside Castel's mind.
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About the book
- Author
- Ernesto Sabato
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 151
- Publisher
- Cátedra, Jonathan Cape, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
- Editions
- 120
- Language
- German, English, srp, hrv
- ISBN
- 9789871144266
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“Bastará decir que soy Juan Pablo Castel, el pintor que mató a María Iribarne; supongo que el proceso está en el recuerdo de todos y que no se necesitan mayores explicaciones sobre mi persona.”
Ernesto Sabato (Rojas, Buenos Aires, 24 de junio de 1911-Santos Lugares, Buenos Aires, 30 de abril de 2011) fue un escritor, pintor y físico argentino. Su obra narrativa consiste en tres novelas: *El túnel, Sobre héroes y tumbas* y *Abaddón el exterminador.* También se destacó como ensayista en libros como *Uno y el Universo, Hombres y engranajes, El escritor y sus fantasmas* y *Apologías y rechazos,* en los que reflexiona sobre la condición humana, la vocación de la escritura o los problemas culturales del siglo XX. Fue el segundo argentino galardonado con el Premio Miguel de Cervantes (1984), después de Jorge Luis Borges (1979). ---------- Ernesto Sabato (Rojas, Buenos Aires, June 24, 1911
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