Ernesto Sabato

Argentine novelist, essayist, painter and former physicist, author of El túnel, Sobre héroes y tumbas and Abaddón el exterminador; chaired CONADEP and contributed to the Nunca Más report on Argentina's Dirty War.

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  1. 1. El Escritor Y Sus Fantasmas

    A reflective, essayistic exploration of the writer’s inner life and obligations, portraying literary creation as a struggle with personal “ghosts” —obsessions, memories, moral conflicts and historical burdens— that shape and haunt the work; the book argues that confronting these inner demons, rather than denying them, is essential for truthful art, and it examines the tension between solitude and communication, fiction and ethical responsibility, often drawing on literary and autobiographical examples to illuminate how writers negotiate truth, responsibility and the human condition.

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