Sabato, who is now hailed as the last great live Argentine letters , cemented his fame well deserved three strange novels and written many years apart in very different times writer and his readers, among whom I count myself, Tunnel, On Heroes and Tombs and Abaddon the destroyer. The rest are essays about literature and politics, understood as participation in pursuit of moral ideals such as freedom of expression, etc.. That attitude led him to chair the commission of truth and write the famous Never Again Report of the National Commission on Missing Persons in 1985, I know the pieces by the press. The novelist had to take account of a reality that surpassed what any imagination could concoct. It is aloof, what happens when you try to romanticize the Holocaust. Man is capable of producing more evil than you can imagine. That baffles.
But it was the person for the job because their literature was essentially that, in revealing how good and evil, love and hate coexist and intermingle in a way that there is often no way to distinguish and if that happens inside of each, is set to a character like Fernando Vidal On Heroes and Tombs. Of the three novels this, the middle, is what impressed me most, by itself, and because I was very impressionable by dint of very young. In Abaddon, whose fragmentation and disarray put the story further and here the novel, was triumphant and evil by The tunnel, which was the last I read, I found it enlightening because it has the keys, starting that famous living rat start was as a warning of what would come with the other books because it already stands at the threshold el Holocausto mismo. Pero el impacto lo causó Sobre héroes y tumbas y más que nada el Informe sobre ciegos . No he vuelto a leer nada parecido. Esa quintaesencia de la conspiración, de la conjura para el advenimiento del mal que pende sobre nuestras cabezas como una maldición, somos nosotros mismos, es la fuerza oscura, nuestro lado ciego, allí donde destruimos lo que amamos. Es la persecuciòn de las Erinnias, la maldición que se desata sobre el transgresor que ha hecho algo que trastoca las reglas inmutables. En este caso, la violación y el incesto.
Descanse en paz un hombre que tenía una idea tan pesimista de sus semejantes que fue capaz de contemplarlos en lo más profundo of abjection and report on it.
(The picture is a picture of Ed April Educational and Cultural SA, Buenos Aires, 1972 in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons ).
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