The Outsider (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernesto Sábato
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Plot: Psychological novel of passion and crime
- Time of Work: 1946
- Setting: Buenos Aires and Hunter’s ranch in the countryside
- Principal Characters: Juan Pablo Castel, María Iribarne, Allende Hunter, Luis Hunter, Mimí Hunter
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, New York City, Blindness or blind persons, Chicago, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession, New Jersey, Adultery, Painting or painters
- Locales: Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Novel
The Outsider is an intense psychological novel concerning a passionate crime narrated in the first-person-singular form, using techniques found in detective fiction. The opening line of the novel unveils the outcome of Juan Pablo Castel’s desperate attempt to reach out of his inner confinement through a total physical and spiritual communication with María. The direct opening statement, “I am Juan Pablo Castel, the painter who killed María Iribarne,” takes the reader through the sordid labyrinth of the protagonist’s convulsed mind. The plot of the...
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