Narrar (sobre) abismos. De puentes y poéticas en Rayuela de Julio Cortázar y El túnel de Ernesto Sábato

Abstract

In their narrative and their essayistic œuvre, Ernesto Sabato and Julio Cortazar display their concern for the solitude assailing modern subjectivities and, at the same time, grapple with the possibilities offered by art – in particular by literary art – to overcome said isolation In El tunel and Rayuela, both authors use the architectonic image of the bridge to illustrate the novel's expressive potential and how it can bridge the chasm between the alienated existences of the 20th century As a literary genre delving into human experience, the novel does not only narrate through the existential abyss, but also becomes a communicating bridge itself