El Túnel

My favorite book is El Túnel, a novel written by Ernesto Sabato, the text is written from first person by the main character, Juan Pablo Castel who mainly interacts with Maria Iribarne.

The story begins as soon as Juan Pablo constantly meditates on the purpose of humanity, as well as how corrupt society has become. He believes that there is no such idea that could answer all his questions and that becomes the deep sensation of need, the need of someone, just the single possibility of someone to understand his thoughts. It is after this that we see the beginning of this novel when in one of his exhibitions of one painting Maternidad its observed by a woman that take a close look in specifically at the only drawing in the painting, which is a view from the window where an unknown women is seen looking directly at the beach, this amazes Juan Pablo and think that perhaps she could be the person who can really understand him.

This book is very dear to me because it was one of the first times in my life that i took a book out of the library to read and i was not very interested in reading, but as soon as i started reading i could not stop reading it, so i finished it in just two days. The interactions of the characters had very interesting and existential content for my age, that is why i always remember it