Buenos Aires · 1961 · citedOn Heroes and Tombs
Ernesto Sábato
Sábato's Buenos Aires is a haunted southern city: a bench in Parque Lezama where a shy student meets a woman who cannot be saved, a crumbling family mansion in old Barracas, and the paranoid tunnels imagined beneath the streets in the Report on the Blind. The novel keeps the porteño south at its centre, then breaks north for the historical retreat of Lavalle's beaten army.
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