Sabato heroes and tombs (1911-2011) 
"There is a certain type of fiction by which the author tries to break free from an obsession that is unclear or for himself. For better and for worse, are the only ones I can write. More still are the stories incomprehensible that I was wrought to write since I was a teenager. By chance I was sparing in its publication, and until 1948 I decided to publish one of them: The Tunnel. In the thirteen years between then, I continued exploring the dark labyrinth leading to the central secret of life. Again and again, I tried to express the result of my search, until discouraged by the poor results ended up destroy the manuscripts. Now, some friends who led me to read publication. ". Ernesto Sabato, "On Heroes and Tombs." was a gray, rainy, gray, silent, sorry, was a day well Sabato, a day where the weather was consistent with the farewell he deserved this great personality who was the writer Ernest. It was a different day, a day where she cried and cried Alejandra Vidal Olmos Martín del Castillo, Castell and Mary weeping, weeping Bruno and Alejandra's mother, was a day where we all cried. WRITER is that he died, he died, my teacher's teacher-teen, that being who taught me to think and especially to feel the pain that leads a man enduring the greatest feats and the most detestable shares, the grandeur, madness, misery, nothing of which it is party.
Yesterday was a tough day, today it was more-at least for me, is that we was Ernesto, the humanist. And although he no longer spoke or appeared in public, much less writing, he was alive, old man, fragile, weak, but alive in your corner of the world in holy places. Cry
Alejandra Martin and cry and cry all the blind of that great report that was hell and it was heaven for everyone. A report showing ever, the blind man's existential burning inside and propels us to death and destruction. Sabato died We weep and heroes from the grave of the writer and the story of a lost nation since its genesis.
We Ernesto died, the writer who flowed as "black river" and deep in the streets of Buenos Aires, flowing and we are drowning in the undercurrents of existentialism more personal and a physical primary could conceive. Yesterday is dead writer who taught us that man comes into being, and the characters are constructed with man's natural pain under inviolable metaphysical principles. Yesterday was the writer who died showed that the plots are itineraries decadent surprise us in the morning and evening haunt us, and ultimately, death comes to collect, like it or not, the debt we incur when we are born. To Sabato was that mystery man that we should look beyond it. From the mystery man was fighting rationalism that condemned him. So Sabato took surrealism and Camusian imprint. The novel, with all the modern compositional devices that lent him, helped him to come to love, death, evil and the most severe pessimism. We cried all because the writer died consistent, persistent in the pursuit of truths discovered that the pessimism expressed in moral diagnosis is the result ontological murderous momentum cradled in our chest drain.
Sabato is an icon of the culture of Argentina with all the positive and negative that comes through that position in the imagination of a society. Learned to articulate, statement after statement, page after page, in the wake of torture and suffering writer struggling against the darkness and ghosts. His conscience seemed to never leave her alone. His character often conflicting and arbitrary was etched on his forehead wrinkles. Argentina will hurt, it hurt the world and lived with the obvious lack of intensity every generation have solutions.
cry because the writer died unveiled the monstrous world of darkness and at the same time all of us. Ernesto Sabato was a man sad, so sad was that it seemed that this was its real and unique nature, but more than his body, his look, his words, more than that, Sabato showed that it was a physically and mentally sad. But his sorrow was so old that made his body, his memory and his desire pure melancholy, and his health deteriorated, but could never think that this body of which he complained so would betray something for release perhaps, but also for their grief, which eventually happened. Well, despite appearances, he made explicit and which is felt in the cavities rarely smiling in his eyes, Ernesto Sabato was also a curmudgeon who loved life, a man capable of switching its concern blindness (hers, who was threatening him) with jokes and bickering that lifted liked to talk about the literary class to which he belonged in full, but reluctantly.
With 99 years death should not be too surprised, but surprise and that surprise is pure tears, crying that occurs in man's death a teenage hero, that being that I opened the doors of writing and broke my heart forever. I cry, because he died the writer who taught me to suffer, laugh, to think, to see the world from another location. He died on who taught me that men suffer equally and alike are looking for exits to not suffer, although that is impossible. Alejandra and cry Cry me, has killed one of the key writers of literature Argentina, Latin American and twentieth century world.
been killed Alejandra writer who has created and taught us that life is a tunnel littered with heroes and tombs. He died writer who has made us think about the world and we think in the world. It has killed the "master", the "genius", the "rogue" (fan of Rosario Central), the "dismal Quixote" of the Pampas. It the writer died, but above all, the man, that man with successes and mistakes, misery and virtues, like everyone else. Descending
Italian father and an Albanian mother, Sabato is considered one of the greats of American literature not only for his novels, including Abaddon the destroyer, but also for its extensive essays on the human condition. He won the Cervantes Prize in 1984 and took the audacity to say that Don Quixote was "a mere mortal, tender helpless wanderer, the man who once said that freedom as well as for honor, can and should risk one's life. "Sabato
also had a wandering life, marked by literature and its ethical commitment that led to the end of his life to declare closer to "anarcho-Christianity" that the active community of his youth. The writer began his career as a physicist, in Zurich (Switzerland), but very quickly began his literary activities and his friendship with the South Group, where he met Victoria Ocampo and Jorge Luis Borges, who always maintained an adversarial relationship but gave origin, in 1976, a beautiful book entitled Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges.
life and the importance of Ernesto Sabato, not be understood without his role as a fighter for human rights and commitment to the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 despite that in the first months after the coup he participated in a dinner with General Jorge Videla, also attended by Jorge Luis Borges and the military promoted to publicize the process. Sabato changed his mind on learning the continued killings and human rights abuses who stars in the dictatorship and signed all the petitions that could claim the lives of those who appear to have been abducted, while many remained silent and hid behind books and publishing.
Yesterday, at approximately 0:40 am, at his home in the street Langeri Severino 3135, in the district of Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, died Ernesto Sabato. Although all knew it was silent for a long time, a prisoner of a very serious illness which affected him, this news hit hard at all.
had been of the reformist left college and his first contacts with the cultural life had been through science and physics. Sabato early thinking was devoted to a kind of humanistic revival in a universe gone through a technological revolution that evidently not convinced, since it appeared that the man left homeless creator, spiritual writer, the community itself.
Its origins are related to scientific positivism, he went away gradually from him for what was once called the gods, the gods of creation, the gods of the repair of the life of contemporary society, the great cities of cement. His background is impressive: Marxist thought, existential philosophy, humanism of Camus and Sartre, the specific scientific expertise in studying in France, where as physical approaches to nuclear knowledge.
Sabato, in the 30's, was a character with one foot in the communist militant and one in science. "He comes from the traditional left which breaks to be disappointed," said Secretary of Culture of Argentina, Jorge Cosio.
Fearing persecution government of Josef Stalin, to distance himself and to challenge the Communist Sabato rejects a trip to Moscow and devoted itself fully in Buenos Aires to science, to receive a Ph.D. in Physics in 1938.
was just the science that inspired his first book. And not because of their belief in this field but by the contradictions found in the accuracy and numbers.
What Sabato defined as an "existential crisis", was what led to his first book in 1945, One and the Universe, a few years after leaving science and devote himself entirely to the humanities. The devil libertarian literary creation as epistemological rationalism and away from him to choose the letters. Understand that the novel (the great novel in the sense of the Russian masters Dostoevsky, Tolstoy or German Mann, Hesse, or Proust and Joyce), is the path of a total vision of man and life, a Weltanschauung.
The publication of One and the Universe offers a series of philosophical reflections on where the writer questioned the alleged moral neutrality of science. This was the starting point of his literary career.
But his work became more widespread a few years later. The tunnel was a novel that is full of existentialism of the moment whose central theme is the murder and how love can turn into hatred.
This work earned him praise from great French philosophers like Albert Camus, and became required reading in academic centers worldwide, being translated into several languages.
In his ghost writer and was the man and machinery, and that young people were reading the 60 made with interest. It was, somehow, the collective political solutions with a humanity that seemed to offset the moral objectives, intellectual.
published in the '40 Tunnel, which was praised by Albert Camus in France, the most widely read writer in that time. Sabato The Tunnel was a novel inspired a little Camus, who was also looking in the dark the meaning of life, "he asked.
` `On Heroes and Tombs in the 60 was his shocking novel, a novel about Argentina, a search also the sense of truth and existence, but through different characters. was a novel that really shocked the literature of Argentina, also in the midst of a world without values \u200b\u200bor nonsense, especially the city of Buenos Aires, he paints with a metaphysical sense. The characters are like sleepwalkers who seek themselves in the midst of a society that turns its back and this novel for many years was leaving Sabato brand new readers, and not a few other scriptures were inspired in On Heroes and Tombs.
Abbadon the exterminator, as many did not achieve the level of On Heroes and Tombs, but it is a work that is to continue it, and break with the space and time established so far. In this book, Sabato, stresses his own existential conflicts in, choose to take as the protagonist, a method that allowed him to see and be seen, according to the image with that intended in the other. He preferred to express how to express themselves. This book attempted to progress in the occult and the bankruptcies of Western spirituality. The novel sparked interest in Europe, not so much in Argentina, but ended his novel trilogy.
published in 1981 Robotization man. Three years later he is never terrible and painful chronicle of research on missing during the military dictatorship led by Rafael Videla. Had a significant role in drafting the report of the Conadep (National Commission of Disappeared Persons) to restore democracy in 1983, which was emphasized humanistic value and sense of justice.
not until 1999 that published before the end. An autobiographical text, pessimistic. Contradictory and Augustine. Radical in the premonition of a hopeless future. His target was the youth of Argentina. And in some ways, a book of farewell.
Then he began to paint subjects were generally described as grim as a farewell to the world wide because of their skepticism, but never had an impact his painting. Sabato said
believe in man, "despite being the most sinister animal." I also thought that "Life is so short and the business of living so hard, that when you start to learn, we must die" and eventually dies and nothing is left.
a curmudgeon, a hermit, a vain, a Ironically, a conflict like no other, a being attentive and respectful, a political independent, a renegade of Marxism totalitarian enemy of neoliberalism, a committed anti-Peronist, a liberal anarchist, an anarchist critic conviction.
With their mistakes, their vanity, their commitment, their willingness to Argentina, their faith in literary knowledge, Sabato was a big personality who dedicated his life to search lights and shadows of man and society.
not reach the centennial was the latest move of indomitable spirit, a physicist turned writer, a man committed to "being and nothingness" and eternal talker while many were silent. Ninety-nine years is not an insignificant number and it was not for him.
celebrate his life and literature, this is the best thanks I can do. And their literature to help us through the strange tunnel that is life Sabato because men are required for the tour is less dark, less painful for all of us.
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