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The present article analyses parts of Sobre héroes y tumbas from the perspective of the essayistic work of Ernesto Sabato. The principal purpose of this analysis is to understand the metaphysical preoccupations and worries of the author and situate them within a philosophical context. I suggest that paranoia is the logical result of the collapse of the classical system of metaphysics in the wake of Kant, and that this rupture in the history of metaphysics is the central problem of the work of Sabato. I also pay additional attention to the evolution of Sabato's thought from its origins in the philosophy of science through to Heidegger, by way of Husserl. This rupture causes an epistemological crisis that makes metaphysical knowledge impossible, while at the very same time presupposing that metaphysical knowledge is necessary in order not to fall into paranoia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]