The Tunnel, Portrait of an Obsession

The Tunnel is a novel by writer Ernesto Sabato, an author known for his complex personality. The sensitivity captured in his novels is the product of a youth characterized by reoccurring anguish and painful loneliness. All these ingredients are present in the aforementioned book, a work considered psychological and existentialist. One can approach this text from different perspectives. This article will do it based on the way in which Sabato creates and constructs the links. Thus, you’ll discover not only an obsessive relationship but will also extract an Oedipus complex. “In any case, there was only one tunnel, dark and…