![]() ![]() ![]() His pithy misanthropy offers readers an uncomfortable, reckless pleasure as the Buenos Aires art scene ("THE CRITICS… a plague I have never understood"), the city's postal service and people who give to charity all come in for a caustic kicking. Soon his green eye gets the better of him – and María.Ī perverse effect of the candour in Castel's retrospective account is that it almost makes you forget he's a murderer (and a rapist, it becomes clear). ![]() The more he forces his way into her life – discovering that she has a blind husband and an ex-lover who killed himself – the more jealous he becomes. Juan Pablo Castel is a painter who stalks a woman named María after he notices her in a gallery studying one of his canvases with interest. D isturbing, funny and still fresh, this 1948 novel narrated by an artist in jail for murder was the Argentine writer Ernesto Sábato's first book (he died last month aged 99). ![]()
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