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Bezig met laden... Santa Evita (1995)door Tomás Eloy Martínez
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Man, this was a weird read. It's sort of semi-historical fiction, focused on Evita's embalmed corpse and the people obsessed with the body and the person. It's somewhat disjointed and plotless. I kept coming back to it, though. There's a hint of Pynchon in the puzzles, conspiracies, and attempt to put order onto a chaotic world. The publishers put a Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote on the front, clearly trying to lure in fans of his style of magical realism. I dunno if that's quite what I'd call this book. I think it's about the mystical and constructed quality of history and of who we make ourselves into and who we are made. El personaje central de esta novela es el cuerpo. Un cuerpo que, con la muerte, cobra una sonoridad sin par y redefine en forma mítica a la mujer que lo habitaba. Pocas veces, en un país, un símbolo ha despertado tanta imaginación febril como el cuerpo muerto de Eva Perón. Santa Evita cuenta por primera vez el larguísimo calvario que sufrió ese cadáver embalsamado, y retrata en forma admirable a los personajes que acompañaron su peregrinaje This book from 1001 Books You Must read before You Die by author Tomas Eloy Martinez, Argentina author and translated by Helen Lane is the story of Eva Peron (after her death). I do not know much about Eva Peron. I never watched the play or movies. This story is full of magical realism but it is also very long and mostly a struggle to read. She was a saint to the common person of Argentina, she rose from poverty to be the wife of Peron. She died young. The story is written as a journalistic investigation into what happened to Eva after her death. It's a whole lot of story about a corpse and how soldiers fell for her but hated her even in her death. Plot is a bit over long. Characterization is that of Eva, Eva's people closest to her such as family but mostly it is about those involved after her death. Perhaps my not knowing Eva, not knowing the history of Argentina all affect my ability to enjoy this novel. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about the legendary Eva Peron. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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E tutto questo è iniziato per un no ignorato. Evita Perón non voleva che il suo cadavere diventasse oggetto di interessi morbosi, ma suo marito pensò bene di farla imbalsamare, dando la stura a una morbosità che ha quasi dell’incredibile se non si intrecciasse con il desiderio di rimettere al proprio posto una donna che non c’era stata e di ridurre la sua figura entro confini che la rendessero di nuovo comprensibile.
Eloy Martínez romanza la storia di Evita Perón, perché la letteratura può arrivare laddove la storia è ormai una trama sfilacciata di mezze verità e bugie e non può essere raccontata altrimenti. ( )