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Ernesto Sabato, after the end

"I can not see you. I feel very depressed and anxious. I have no mood to talk to anyone," said the author's answering machine The tunnel, a man who, according to his own son-lived sadness with frank exaggeration

TORMENTED PORTRAIT OF MAN. trials before the end were part of a "postscript or spiritual testament" of a message is known and desesperanzador.foto.fuente: Revista Ñ

can not be sad all the time, anxious the whole time ... Everything was an exaggeration. Lived that exaggeration. "He said his son, Mario Sabato, in a tribute to the author of The tunnels l held last week at the Book Fair.

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Sabato made of this overstatement to his standard. Chose to brighten your life with that half-light torch. Many years ago, if you called his house Holy Places, Don Ernesto's voice could be heard on your answering machine with messages saying something like: "I can not see you. I feel very depressed and anxious. I have no mood to talk to anyone. " His wife, Matilde Kusminsky-Richter, died in September 1998 and his eldest son, George Frederick, was killed three years earlier in a car accident. If perpetual Sabato fatalism had not bottomed out, the deaths ended to push towards the darkest depths.

By then the writer

numbered 86 and had finished writing Before the end, her first book after decades of silence of the press. It was, by his own definition of a "witness, epilogue or spiritual testament." There, and along a little more than two hundred pages, Sabato covers key chapters of his "tormented existence." Shred encounters that left too many questions and few certainties in life. He speaks little of his previous books, and when mentioned, it is only to explain how he suffered making. In these pages suffer, too, about ecology, the unemployed, teachers, the homeless and the unfortunate fate to which humanity is headed. But it suffers, especially himself.

raging storms before the end are endless. Self-pity as much as Sabato displayed in abundance. With that has held its last years of public life, become the passenger of a nightmare. The author and her ghost writer had left a quarter century before the printed word to focus on being a thinker media, the voice of the national consciousness.

No cameras or microphones failed him: he was always a kind of symbol of ethics for the majority of Argentines and a reference moral for the new generations, especially after he chaired in 1984 the National Commission on Disappeared People (CONADEP), which investigated crimes committed during the military dictatorship in Argentina, whose report is contained in the book Never Again

The writer and his work

younger generations, "whom the writer was directed especially at the end Before - knew him more for his public appearances for the value of literature. Sabato circular knew the information age with good waist: not escaped the special programs that yielded tribute or interviews headlines. Argentine newspapers also published frequently in his readers the many emails he was sending thoughts, and could have addressed both as Diego Armando Maradona and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo as his own reality: in 1993 he explained in a open letter which was submerged in poverty and not enough money to live. Needless to say they won a national crusade him assistance in these domestic tribulations. Sabato also put his hand to these epistolary any moans when he wanted to respond to each line issued to invoke his name in vain or simply to regain the existential problems it had to bring evil.

These media messages, mostly fatal, were the main course before the end . There was nothing new in this book, even the condolences Sabato exempting itself was a novelty. Your message was already known: humanity is moving towards self-destruction and he was forced to travel on this ship despite his early vocation for suicide, which also reports. Both discouragement, however, overshadowed the commercial success that his editors were suspicious. A few weeks after its appearance in bookstores Argentina, 10 December 1998, the book had several reprints and for weeks remained immovable on the top of the bestseller lists.

is logical that his "spiritual testament" generated many expectations. Despite some old ideas recycled trials, published sporadically, his last book of fiction had been Abaddon the destroyer in 1974. His other two novels - Tunnel (1948) and On Heroes and Tombs (1961) - fairly catapulted him to a place of privilege in the literature and international recognition earned him, among other honors, the Award Cervantes in 1984. The rest of his books took the form of essays, and They displayed his remarkable acuteness of thinker.

But in this case, rather than be expected, Sabato was praying: in the prologue of clarified before the end he was forced to publish it because young people-that's what they said he needed his message. It took six years to the last paragraph, and in that time became intoxicated with the pleas that pushed him to the typewriter. Only then claimed Sabato, could face the anguish that was conceived. "I do not want to die without saying these words," young people were shot in the Epilogue, as a tiny light on the road, try to leave them a share hope. If not for the title you put in this chapter, "Covenant defeated," perhaps the flame of faith stronger charge instead of stoking a fire of doom and despair of no return. But we know: Sabato used to be an exaggeration of himself.