(.) (W)here ambiguity would deepen the mystery of the novel, Sabato makes matters plain.' - Paul Taylor, Sunday Times

' The Tunnel is an intelligent, perceptive, but unexceptional tale of the warped, demented logic of an obsessional mind and of the kind of possessive love which can only quell its compulsive suspicions and jealousies by killing its object.

Sabato's novel retains a chilling, memorable power.' - Martin Kirby, The New York Times Book Review

Still, in this fine new translation by Margaret Sayers Peden, Mr. 'Some of today's readers may find Castel's descent into insanity a trifle romanticized.Too, he delivers several satisfying satirical thrusts at the vagaries of the life of the urban intellectual that retain a remarkable contemporary resonance.' - Christopher T. 'If, in the time since its publication, some of the rhetoric of this novel, written in the years of existentialism's full flower, strikes the ear as curiously overwrought, the power of Sabato's story remains.'(T)his brief, fierce breakthrough novel (.) belongs among the existential landmarks of postwar fiction.' - Boyd Tonkin, The Independent.His pithy misanthropy offers readers an uncomfortable, reckless pleasure as the Buenos Aires art scene (.), the city's postal service and people who give to charity all come in for a caustic kicking.' - Anthony Cummins,The Guardian 'A perverse effect of the candour in Castel's retrospective account is that it almost makes you forget he's a murderer (and a rapist, it becomes clear).Previously translated as The Outsider by Harriet de Onis (1950).General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.

El túnel by Ernesto Sábato