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Sabato, Ernesto was born on June 24, 1911 in Rojas, Argentina. Son of Francisco and Juana (Ferrari) Sabato.
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Godine first published this towering work of Latin American literature in 1981, and is now reissuing it with a new introduction. Often mentioned in the same breath as Borges, Sabato was praised by Camus and other major writers such as Thomas Mann, Graham Greene, Pablo Neruda, Salman Rushdie and Colm Toibin. He was an important political figure as well as a novelist, and exposed the state terrorism of Argentina's 'dirty war,' wrote about everything from metaphysics to tango. On Heroes and Tombs is his masterpiece. In his obituary in 2011, the New York Times wrote: In 1972, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda listed Mr. Sabato among the Latin American writers who displayed 'greater vitality and imagination than anything since the great Russian novels' of the19th century. On Heroes and Tombs, the story of a young man trying to find his way in life in Buenos Aires, is considered his most important work of fiction. But many people also know Mr. Sabato for his work in helping Argentina heal when democracy was restored in 1983 after seven years of military dictatorship. On Heroes and Tombs is woven around a violent crime: the scion of a prominent Argentinian family, Alejandra, shoots her father and burns herself alive over his corpse. The story shifts between perspectives to reveal the lives of those closest to her, telling of Martin, her troubled lover; Bruno, a writer who loved her mother; and Fernando, her father who believes himself hunted by a secret, international organization of the blind. Exploring the tumult of Buenos Aires in the 1950s, Heroes illuminates its characters against burning churches and corporate greed. An examination of Argentinian history and culture, it reveals the country at every level, leading
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Sabato, Ernesto was born on June 24, 1911 in Rojas, Argentina. Son of Francisco and Juana (Ferrari) Sabato.
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, University La Plata, Argentina, 1937. Postgraduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Argentina, 1939.
Professor theoretical physics, National U. La Plata, Argentina, 1940-1945;
with, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1947;
editor, Mundo Argentino, 1955;
director cultural relations, Ministry Fgn, Rels. and Culture, 1958-1959;
chairman, National Commision on Disappearance of Persons, Argentina, 1983. Lecturer universities in France, United States, Spain, Italy, Federal Republic Germany, Canada and Poland.
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Member Committee pour l'University de l'Unesco, Jerusalem Committee, Club Rome.
Married Matilde Kusminsky-Richter, May 24, 1936. Children: Jorge, Mario.