"El túnel" is a quickly read and fairly engaging existential novel from 1948, that kept me hoping something else was going to happen that would make t"El túnel" is a quickly read and fairly engaging existential novel from 1948, that kept me hoping something else was going to happen that would make the story a little less linear or a tad more interesting. Juan Pablo Castel, a painter, becomes obsessed with a woman who he thinks is the only one to understand him and his art. They have an affair but he grows brutal and and angry quickly, and ends up killing her - which is not a spoiler, because he says so from the start of the novel. So while you're reading this, you know the ending, and you watch it unfold in quite an obvious way. Maybe I'd felt differently reading this in the 40s, but nowadays it reads a little obvious and not very exciting. But with 150 or so pages and straight forward language, it's really not a great effort to make and read. ...more
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