Between immersion and explanation. Tragic duality in Ernesto Sabato’s the tunnel

The article is concerned with Ernesto Sabato’s transitional works One and the Universe [Uno y el Universo] and Man and Mechanism [Hombres y engranajes] in relation to the distinctive features of The Tunnel [El túnel]. In the latter, Juan Pablo Castel embodies the tunnel of his own existence from the perspective of two equidistant and overlapped points: the immersion he performs as an artist when he paints –a possibility that challenges all logics– and the explanation, understood as the necessity to see through an uneasy and lonely woman. The previous elements might contribute to an understandi... Mehr ...