The Tunnel is the extraordinary breakthrough novel of a Physicist (Doctorate in Physics from the Universidad Nacional de la Plata) turned author, and contemporary of Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato. At first glance, the slender volume seems unremarkable enough. Man meets woman, man falls deeply in love with woman, man gets scorned, and man kills woman. But the clinical confession of Castel from the confines of prison sends a shiver down the spine of his reader