Names of the days of the week Meiji era. In China, with the founding of the Republic of China in 1911, Monday through Saturday in China are now named after the luminaries implicitly with the numbers. Sunday comes first in order in calendars shown in the table below. In the Judeo-Christian or Abrahamic tradition, the first day of the week is Sunday. Biblical Sabbath (corresponding to Saturday), when God rested from , made the day following Sabbath the first day of the week (corresponding to Sunday). Seventh-day Sabbaths were sanctified for celebration and rest. After the week was adopted in early Christianity, Sunday remained the first day
Ernesto Sabato being rejected by several Buenos Aires' editors, Sabato published in "Sur" his first novel, "El túnel", a psychological novel narrated in first-person. Framed in existentialism, it was met with enthusiastic reviews by Albert Camus, who had the book translated by Gallimard into French. It has been further translated to more than 10 languages. Others to enjoy the book included Thomas Mann. France's literary industry named his book "Abaddon el Exterminador" ("The Angel of Darkness") as 1976's best foreign book. In 1998 his wife died. In 1999 he acquired the Italian citizenship, in addition to his original Argentine one. Sabato died