On Heroes and Tombs - Ernesto Sabato he waits patiently for his

he waits patiently for his first disciple

Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature

troubling and fascinating nations on earth

a son and an orphaned garden

Patriot is as dramatic as its author’s life – passionate that good and freedom will prevail

On Heroes and Tombs - Ernesto Sabato he waits patiently for hisOne June day in 1955 Alejandra, last of a noble yet decaying Argentinian dynasty, shoots her father, locks herself up with his body, and sets fire to them both. What caused this act of insanity? Does the answer lie with Martn, her troubled lover, Bruno, the writer who worshipped her mother, or with her father Fernando himself, demonic creator of the strange 'Report on the Blind'? Their lives entwine in Ernesto Sabato's dark epic of passion, philosophy