EL TÚNEL - INSCRIBED

by Ernesto Sabato

$2,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

Buenos Aires: Editorial SUR, 1948. First Edition. A rare presentation copy of the Argentine author and physicist's second book and first novel, an existential classic centered around an insane painter, who narrates from his jail cell the story of his obsession with a woman he ultimately murders. Sabato 1911-2011 wrote the first draft in a Zurich train station, and turned the manuscript over to Adolfo Bioy Casares for

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