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Encyclopedia > Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sabato

Born June 24, 1911 (1911-06-24) (age 96)
Flag of Argentina Rojas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Occupation Writer

Ernesto Sábato (born June 24, 1911) is an Argentine writer of Italian and Arbëreshë (Italian Albanian) descent. He was born in Rojas, a tiny town in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sabato 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. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1128x1060, 448 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ernesto Sabato Portal:Argentina/Selected article/2006 Portal:Argentina/Selected article/Month 11, 2006 ... is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Argentina. ... The Buenos Aires province (IPA: , Spanish: Provincia de Buenos Aires) is the wealthiest and most populated province of Argentina. ... is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Arbëreshë are an Albanian-speaking community living in southern Italy and Sicily. ... Categories: Argentine provinces | Buenos Aires province | Argentina geography stubs ... National University of La Plata (Spanish:Universidad Nacional de La Plata) is an Argentine state university, and the most important in La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... This is a discussion of a present category of science. ... Inscription over the entrance to the Sorbonne The front of the Sorbonne Building The name Sorbonne (La Sorbonne) is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris in Paris, France or one of its successor institutions (see below), but this is a recent usage, and Sorbonne has actually... It has been suggested that List of visitor attractions in Paris be merged into this article or section. ... The Curie Institute is a private non-profit foundation operating a research center on biophysics, cell biology and oncology and a hospital (Hôpital Claudius Régaud) specialized in treatment of cancer. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...


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. Albert Camus (IPA: ) (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher. ... This article is about the writer. ...


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. Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín (born 13 March 1927) is an Argentine politician, who was the President of Argentina from 10 December 1983 to 9 July 1989. ... The Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, CONADEP) was an Argentine organism created by President Raúl Alfonsín on December 15, 1983, shortly after his inauguration to investigate the fate of the desaparecidos and other human rights violations (see... Desaparecidos means literally the disappeared in Spanish, and is a reference to people who were arrested, often illegally, by various South American military governments and then vanished. ... Poster by the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo NGO with photos of disappeared. This article especially refers to the Argentine dirty war; however, the term has been used in other contexts, for example in Morocco; see also lead years. ...

Contents

Bibliography

Novels

El Túnel (The Tunnel) is a fictional dark story by Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato about a deranged porteño painter, Juan Pablo Castel, and his obsession with a woman. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... On Heroes and Tombs (in original Spanish Sobre héroes y tumbas) is a novel by Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, first published in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana in 1961 (translated by Helen R. Lane in 1981 as On heroes and tombs. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... On Heroes and Tombs (in original Spanish Sobre héroes y tumbas) is a novel by Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, first published in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana in 1961 (translated by Helen R. Lane in 1981 as On heroes and tombs. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...

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

Ernesto Sabatos small encyclopedia of ideas Uno y el universo was published in 1945. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Juan Galo Lavalle (born on October 17, 1797 in Buenos Aires – died on October 9, 1841 in San Salvador de Jujuy) was an Argentine military figure and statesman. ... Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1884-1946) was an intellectual, essayist, philosopher, humanist, philologist and literary critic, considered one of the foremost figures of the Dominican literature and leading man of letters in the continent. ... Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer. ... Antes del fin (Spanish for Before the end) is an autobiography of Ernesto Sabato released in 1998 in which he recounts his life and the influences on his political and ethical opinions. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... A list of films produced in Argentina by year in the 1970s in the List of Argentine films // Argentine film at the Internet Movie Database Categories: | ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...

Other works

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

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Ernesto Sabato Criticism (867 words)
An evaluation of Ernesto Sábato's collections of essays leads one to the conclusion that his production in this genre is basically oriented toward the study of the human being in an irrational and transitory universe….
A talent for essay writing is evident in all of these collections, although it is apparent that in the volumes of essays the results are uneven, occasionally leaving the reader confused by the encyclopedic nature of certain collections while reaching the zenith of lucidit...
One aspect of Ernesto Sábato's sprawling Sobre héroes y tumbas (1962) concerns the implicit sympathy of the novelist with the "uncomplicated of human spirit," as represented by the central character Martín.
Words Without Borders -> A Letter to Ernesto Sábato (1498 words)
Amidst the many homages to Ernesto Sábato—evoked as a major contemporary writer, as well as a high ethical model of freedom—that kept increasing in those years, the “Romanian” text embodied a specific fraternal vibration, which one could probably also feel in the novel The Black Envelope I was then working on.
I found myself in dialogue with the character-author and with Ernesto Sábato himself, who was summoned to respond to the numerous, dramatic, bitter questions, not only from the reader, but from the author I am.
May we find ourselves in the presence of Ernesto Sábato, as we remember the words that his admirer Witold Gombrowicz borrowed from an old wise man, Rabbi Moshe Levi: “The road of our lives is like a blade’s edge: on one side, hell; on the other, hell.
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