Works

Novels

  • 1948: El túnel (Translated by Harriet de Onis in 1950 as The Outsider and again by Margaret Sayers Peden in 1988 as The Tunnel)
  • 1961: Sobre héroes y tumbas (Translated by Helen R. Lane in 1981 as On Heroes and Tombs)
  • 1974: Abaddón el exterminador (Translated by Andrew Hurley in 1991 as The Angel of Darkness)

Essays

  • 1945: El concepto de temperatura en la termodinámica fenomenológica (The concept of temperature in phenomenological thermodynamics). Article in Revista de la Unión Matemática Argentina, Vol. X, N° 4 https://cai.org.ar/documento-cientifico-de-ernesto-sabato-en-la-biblioteca-del-cai/
  • 1945: Uno y el Universo (One and the Universe)
  • 1951: Hombres y engranajes (Man and Mechanism)
  • 1953: Heterodoxia (Heterodoxy)
  • 1956: El caso Sabato. Torturas y libertad de prensa. Carta abierta al General Aramburu (The Sabato Case. Tortures and Liberty of Press. Open Letter to General Aramburu)
  • 1956: El otro rostro del peronismo (The Other Face of Peronism)
  • 1963: El escritor y sus fantasmas (Translated by Asa Zatz in 1990 as The Writer in the Catastrophe of our Time.)
  • 1963: Tango, discusión y clave (Tango: Discussion and Key)
  • 1967: Significado de Pedro Henríquez Ureña (Significance of Pedro Henríquez Ureña)
  • 1968: Tres aproximaciones a la literatura de nuestro tiempo: Robbe-Grillet, Borges, Sartre (Three Approximations to the Literature of our Time: Robbe-Grillet, Borges, Sartre)
  • 1973: La cultura en la encrucijada nacional (Culture in the National Crossroads)
  • 1976: Diálogos con Jorge Luis Borges (Dialogues with Jorge Luis Borges) (Edited by Orlando Barone)
  • 1979: Apologías y rechazos (Apologies and Rebuttals)
  • 1979: Los libros y su misión en la liberación e integración de la América Latina (Books and their Mission in the Liberation and Integration of Latin America)
  • 1988: Entre la letra y la sangre. Conversaciones con Carlos Catania (Between Letter and Blood. Conversations with Carlos Catania)
  • 1998: Antes del fin (Before the End)

::Antes del fin is an autobiography in which he recounts his life and the influences on his political and ethical opinions. Sabato discusses the ill effects of globalization and the exalting of rationalism and materialism. There are also several tender passages about his school experiences in the 1920s (when there was more idealism, Sabato says), about his deceased wife and son, Matilde and Jorge, and about the struggling workers he meets on the streets of Buenos Aires.

  • 2000: La resistencia (The Resistance)
  • 2004: España en los diarios de mi vejez (Spain in the Diaries of my Old Age)

Others

  • 1964: Itinerario (Itinerary)
  • 1966: Romance de la muerte de Juan Lavalle. Cantar de Gesta (Romance of Juan Lavalle's Death. Cantar de gesta)
  • 1984: Nunca más. Informe de la Comisión Nacional sobre la desaparición de personas (Never Again. Report from the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons)

Tribute

On 24 June 2019, on Sabato's 108th birthday, he was honored with a Google Doodle.

See also

  • Argentine literature

References

Further reading

  • Bacarisse, Salvador (1980). Abaddón el Exterminador: Sabato's Gnostic Eschatology, in Contemporary Latin American Fiction, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh 1980 (pp. 88–109).
  • Bacarisse, Salvador (1983). Poncho celeste, banda punzó: la dualidad histórica argentina. Una interpretación de Sobre héroes y tumbas de Ernesto Sabato in Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Madrid Enero-Marzo 1983 Números 391 393.
  • Conde, David (1981). Archetypal Patterns in Ernesto Sabato's Sobre héroes y tumbas.
  • Foster, David William (1975). Currents in the Contemporary Argentine Novel: Arlt, Mallea, Sabato, and Cortázar.
  • Francis, Nathan Travis (1973). Ernesto Sabato as a Literary Critic.
  • Oberhelman, Harley D. (1970). Ernesto Sabato.
  • Petersen, John Fred (1963). Ernesto Sabato: Essayist and Novelist.
  • Predmore, James R. (1977). A Critical Study of the Novels of Ernesto Sabato.
  • Price Munn, Nancy Elaine (1975). Ernesto Sabato: Theory and Practice of the Novel, 1945–1973.
  • Wainerman Gonilsky, Luis (1978 [1971]). Sabato y el misterio de los ciegos.
  • Interview with Ernesto Sábato: a sense of wonder, The UNESCO Courier, August 1990
  • translation Man and Mechanism
  • translation The Resistance