El Túnel, Orientación de los gatos: Duas janelas para...

Ernesto Sabato is the most representative Argentinian writer of the present. Ex-physicist, ex - militant of the communist party, ex-participant of the surrealism and critic of this movement, Sabato is a writer who discusses the modern man, the human condition. Julio Cortazar, also Argentinian and contemporary of Sabato, is the writer of short stor ies who revolutionized the Latin-American literature an d flirted, as Ernesto did, with the surrealism, altho ugh he has never taken part in the movement. Both writers see in the art the possibility of exceeding the borders of reality, free from the bounds of the materialistic society. Through the comparison of the works El Tunel and Orientacion de los gatos - we analyze the role of art in the liberation and transformation of the mod ern man.