Crime

"Rosaura a las diez", la primera novela de Marco Denevi, es un singular ejemplo de la vitalidad literaria. Sin la apoyatura publicitaria habitual para los libros de aparición reciente, y pasado ya el tiempo de exhibición del filme que, con el mismo título, dirigió Mario Sóffici, con Juan Verdager y Susana Campos en los papeles protagónicos, "Rosaura a las diez" es hoy en el mundo una de las pocas novelas plenamente vigente y más leídas de la literatura argentina moderna.

An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was championed by Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, and Graham Greene upon its publication in 1948 and went on to become an international bestseller. At its center is an artist named Juan Pablo Castel, who recounts from his prison cell his murder of a woman named María Iribarne. Obsessed from the moment he sees her examining one of his paintings, Castel fantasizes for months about how they might meet again. When he happens upon her one day, a relationship develops that convinces him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia leads him to destroy the one thing he truly cares about...