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  <title><![CDATA[El túnel]]></title>
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  <default_description>Juan Pablo Castel es un pintor recluido en prisi&#243;n por el asesinato de Mar&#237;a Iribarne. Durante su encierro rememora la cadena de acontecimientos que la llevaron a perder el control, a convertirse en un hombre con el interior oscuro, un hombre pose&#237;do por una insalvable soledad, la de la ausencia de la mujer amada hasta el l&#237;mite, la de enga&#241;o que ha convertido su coraz&#243;n en un pedazo duro y fr&#237;o de hielo y ha colocado entre sus manos el cuchillo que pone fin al sufrimiento.

Obra esencial de Sabato, que Albert Camus refrend&#243; ante la cr&#237;tica mundial, &lt;I&gt;El T&#250;nel&lt;/I&gt; nos entrega los elementos b&#225;sicos de un visi&#243;n metaf&#237;sica del existir. 
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For those interested in South American literature, this is a &quot;tour-de-force&quot;. Clever and gripping from beginning to end, &lt;I&gt;The Tunnel&lt;/I&gt; reveals how an intelligent and educated man can be driven to insanity and even crime by his own doubts and the obsessive drive for the love of a woman.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1948</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>El t&#250;nel</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ernesto Sábato]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 11 12:10:37 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hell with it; I'm giving everything five stars. I just finished reading this short novel by the Argentine, Ernesto Sábato.  How can you not read a book that begins with this line:<br/><br/><em>Bastará decir que soy Juan Pablo Castel, el pintor que mató a María Iribarne; supongo que el proceso est...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6051828">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60408799">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jun 20 09:09:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[این کتاب به عنوان پیش نیاز خواندن کتاب &quot; قهرمانان و گورها &quot; معرفی و پیشنهاد شد و خود به اندازه کافی لذت بخش بود. نثر ساده و روان از روایتی که شاید توسط تک تک ما تجرب...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60408799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12897641">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dana]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 19 08:15:56 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 19 08:19:46 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[made me feel sane, which is an accomplishment in and of itself. classic latin american novel. very innovative for its time. absorbing, super-quick read. sabato takes you right down into the tunnel with his protagonist. just make sure you remember how to come out of the tunnel on your own...]]></body>
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    <review id="8491125">
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    <name><![CDATA[Parisa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Isfahan, Iran, Islamic Republic of]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 31 13:44:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 31 13:48:13 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[این کتاب شبیه کتاب &quot;بیگانه&quot; است. البته من اینو به بیگانه ترجیح میدم!<br/>جالب این که آلبر کامو درباره ی این کتاب گفته:&quot;تلخی و تندی،شور و حرارت آن را می ستایم.&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="32465909">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lavinia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cluj Napoca, Romania]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 09 14:49:03 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 28 10:09:57 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit at the limit of surrealism. Haven’t tried anything else by Sabato since.<br/><br/>***<br/>mi s-a parut putin la limita suprarealismului. n-am mai incercat nimic sabatian pe urma.]]></body>
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    <review id="28231192">
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 24 21:47:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This seriously was one of the best books I have read and the second time through was even better. If you are a Spanish speaker, this is a must read...]]></body>
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    <review id="65600394">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 30 19:02:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The narrator, Juan Pablo Castel, is a painter who tells us the story of how he came to murder his lover, Maria Iribarne, the only person who truly understood his work. It is a story of intense narcissism as psychologically claustrophobic as its title suggests. I'm very grateful to the friend who gav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65600394">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69640882">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jimmy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Decatur, GA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 31 20:58:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 02 10:38:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Obsession, neurosis, compulsion, irrationality, unreliable narrators... all things I usually love, but for some reason I couldn't really get into it here.  Maybe because the main character didn't seem real for me.  It seemed a bit exaggerated.  Or maybe because Thomas Bernhard does it better, with m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69640882">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51790881">
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    <name><![CDATA[Talrubei]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the first things I did after coming back home from my summer trip, is grabbing Ernesto Sabato's Tunnel for the second time.  I have first read it in early 2008.  All through the summer it has been in my head and I felt that I have missed the book and that I have to get back to it.  By it, I m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51790881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41218070">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lucas]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lima, Peru]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jan 16 09:35:08 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tengo la impresión que este libro es quizás para el mundo hispanohablante el equivalente de lo que es &quot;El Guardian Entre El Centeno&quot; para nosotros, los inglés hablantes, es decir, típicamente es leído en la adolescencia, y a ello se debe (en parte) su lugar dentro de la cultura. Con l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41218070">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1356737">
    <user id="67408">
    <name><![CDATA[Víctor]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Mexico]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 23 22:31:36 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Es la historia de un ser mezquino que se enamora de una mujer que no puede comprender, y en su desesperación la mata.<br/><br/>Tal vez es nos habla de que todos terminamos asesinando emocionalmente a las personas con las que nos vemos baldados al construir puentes hacia ellas. El autor hace una e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1356737">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38799200">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cecilia]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Junto con &quot;Sin Rumbo&quot;, &quot;el Tunel&quot;, definitivamente marcó mi camino en la literatura que me acompañó durante mi adolescencia. Esta obra, (que yo creo mejor que la novela más conocida de Sábato &quot;sobre héroes y tumbas&quot;) fue una de las que más he disfrutado a través...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38799200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72801775">
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    <name><![CDATA[Horax]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Responde a la perfección a la forma de darle vueltas a las cosas que tiene el autor de la mano de sus protagonistas.<br/>El protagonsita se plantea y replantes todos los comportamientos, comentarios, respuestas y gestos de su amada, en la búsqueda de una nefasta soledad llena de celos que le llev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72801775">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47419863">
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    <name><![CDATA[Gabrielle]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Un des pires livres que j'ai jamais lu. Il n'est vraiment pas gros, pourtant ça m'a pris 3 semaines à le lire parce que je n'étais pas capable d'en lire plus de 5 pages à la fois. Un peintre pessimiste à souhait nous entraine dans une spirale infernale auto-destructrice sans réel propos et com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47419863">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64634678">
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    <body><![CDATA[نویسنده خیلی خوب و بسیار عالی تونسته فشار های ذهنی و تلاش های فکریشو به خواننده منتقل کنه، به نظر من فرم روایی داستان و گاهی تاکیدات بیش از حد نویسنده به توضیحات ذهنی ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64634678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the pace of the book and its minimalistic use of dialogue to paint a very dysfunctional individual and his view of the world. I felt going down the spiral of madness with him as the book progressed. Good read especially given the use of Buenos Aires landscape throughout the novel and the fac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41407098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[التجربة الاولى لي مع أرنستو ساباتو. كانت جيدة. الرواية قصيرة جدا وعدد الشخصيات محدود. تميل إلى أن تكون قصة طويلة. المدهش فيها هو منولوجات الشخصية الرئيسية &quot;شبه الم...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78410341">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mixed feelings about this one.<br/><br/>I liked the writing and the narrator's observations about people and life, but was somewhat frustrated by the main character's irrationality. Seventy percent of the book we listen to Juan Pablo's obsessive digressions, which isn't out of place, for this is t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59468499">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 16 11:16:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 18 20:49:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[How well can you rely upon a narrator who admits to a murder in the first line?  This novel is an interesting explanation about why a murder had to take place from the killer's perspective.  I think it might be difficult to find an English version, but it's great stuff.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 27 19:07:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[En los últimos meses D ha incrementado su número de sugerencias, buenas sugerencias sin duda, me dijo que era un libro que tenía que leer y le creo, aprovecharé esta semana para hacerlo.]]></body>
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