ERNESTO SABATO – BETWEEN EXISTENTIALISM AND SCIENCE
ERNESTO SABATO – BETWEEN EXISTENTIALISM AND SCIENCE

Summary/Abstract: Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011), one of the most important Latin American writers, was born in Rojas, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the beginning of the last century. Despite adherence to communism in the teenage years, Sabato abandoned the Marxist-Leninist doctrine. Repudiating communism, Ernesto Sabato reached to see the human being as an accumulation of feelings, living his inner drama on the background of collectivity. Affability is which distinguishes the human being from a simple machine. Human beings are meant to live in society and must find a balanced way between gregarious spirit and individuality "Neither individualism nor collectivism are human solutions [...]. Both the isolated individual and collectivity are abstract concepts because dialogue is a concrete reality; existence is human being in touch with things and his peers. The fundamental fact is the human being with another. Mankind is not the narrow and anxious territory of the self, nor the abstract notion of community, but the intermediate realm where, usually, occur love, friendship, understanding, piety. Only the recognition of this principle will allow us to fund authentic community, not social machinery.ŗ1

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