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Ernesto Sabato
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24 June 1911 - 30 April 2011
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Ernesto Sabato, one of the brightest representatives of the existential prose of Argentina and the so-called “new Latin American novel”, was born on June 24, 1911 in Rojas (Benos Aires province, Argentina). He graduated from the National University of La Plata, where he defended his doctoral thesis in physics and attended lectures on philosophy. There he also worked, later moving to Paris, in the laboratory of Joliot-Curie. Until 1934, Sabato was an activist of the Communist Party, participated
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Ernesto Sabato, one of the brightest representatives of the existential prose of Argentina and the so-called “new Latin American novel”, was born on June 24, 1911 in Rojas (Benos Aires province, Argentina). He graduated from the National University of La Plata, where he defended his doctoral thesis in physics and attended lectures on philosophy. There he also worked, later moving to Paris, in the laboratory of Joliot-Curie. Until 1934, Sabato was an activist of the Communist Party, participated in various demonstrations, in the organization of strikes. In 1943 he began to give critical articles and philosophical essays, and two years later finally left science, deciding to devote himself to literary activity. Soon the writer published the books “The One and the Universe” (1945), “People and Cogs” (1951), “Antiorthodoxy” (1953). The main motive of Sabato’s works, whose work is characterized by a subjective worldview, was the lost man “in the very center of a general cataclysm.” Immersed with existentialist motives, the novel “Tunnel” (1948) was written by Sabato on behalf of a murderer who recalled the details of the crime committed. The focus on decadent patterns was even more pronounced in the novel On Heroes and Graves (1961), where the author tried to conclude a synthetic picture of national life in the framework of a private drama of a clinical nature. In 1974, an acutely critical novel-chronicle about political violence "Avadonn the destroyer" was published, in 1981 - a collection of essays on moral and political problems "Robotization".