num_pages: 479
description: Nineteen-year-old Martín Castillo is a boy from Buenos Aires trying to find his path in life. He meets and falls in love with Alejandra Vidal Olmos who with her father Fernando represents the "old", colonial and autochthonous Argentina, which is seen mutating amid a strange and unsettling "new" world. The novel gives an evocative portrait of the city of Buenos Aires and its people.This work, filled with dark and emotional imagery, is considered by many to be Sabato's magnum opus, and the section Informe sobre ciegos ("Report on the Blind"), about Fernando's distorted obsession with, and fear of, the blind, is a haunting, nightmarish contribution to Latin American literature.
language: English
title: On Heroes and Tombs
titlecomplete: On Heroes and Tombs
characters: Fernando Vidal Olmos, Buchich, tío Bebe, Martín Castillo, Chichín, Pancho, Alejandra Vidal Olmos, Bruno, Humberto J. D'Arcángelo
genres: Spanish Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Latin American, Classics, Fiction, Latin American Literature, Contemporary
ratings_count: 11814
places: Buenos Aires
series: Sobre héroes y tumbas
publisher: David R Godine Pub