Before the end

Number of pages 179" I write this especially for teenagers and youth, and to those who are like me who are close to death, and ask for what and why we lived and endured, and dreamed, and wrote, and drew". Ernesto Sabato oscillates between despair and faith, to give us in these memoirs his courage and pure determination, and his emotion and struggle in front of hardships, solidarizing in all his behaviors with the deprived, giving everything to art, and placing all his hopes on youth. He talks about his upbringing in a large family governed by the strict personality of the father. About his transformation from a scientist to a writer, and about his stay in Paris and his meeting with many writers and celebrities. We also find a collection of articles about Sabato's ideas and his criticism of the way the world has changed today.