![]() ![]() As a youth, he became involved in the effervescent intellectual atmosphere of the Argentinian capital as it grew vertiginously and entered the modern world. Sábato was born into a well-to-do family in Rojas, Buenos Aires province. He likened all of us to blind people stumbling in the darkness. In these books, Sábato explored the themes of isolation and the lack of communication between individuals who are caught up in a succession of events they can do nothing to control, and are hard put to understand. His first novel, El Túnel (The Tunnel, 1947), won him a respectful following, but it was his two later novels, Sobre Héroes y Tumbas (On Heroes and Tombs, 1961) and Abaddón el Exterminador (The Angel of Darkness), that earned him his reputation. ![]() ![]() Ernesto Sábato, who has died aged 99, was the last of a generation of Argentinian writers whose moral rectitude in the midst of political chaos gave them an importance far beyond whatever audience their fictional books attracted. ![]()
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