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I have described this novel as unputdownable, but there were many times when I needed to put it down just to draw breath and shake my head in disbelief. I have to admit I knew next to nothing of Evita Perón before entering this "stranger than fiction" account of her life, told backwards from death to childhood, and forwards as Eloy Martínez pursues her sequestered corpse and the destinies of its captors. As a novel I found it hard to untangle what might be purely novelistic aspects, such as the later Reeperbahn episode, but most of what I could check proved astonishingly true to the story. At first I did not like the intrusion of Eloy Martínez as a protagonist in the story, but later I appreciated that the novel is also in part a case study in how the past is reconstructed and re-represented where reality fact history and fiction collide. The story of this nondescript unexceptional woman rising from rags to power to gain a near-Religious or supernatural mystique binding an entire nation bends reality fact history fiction until they are devoured by myth, of which Perón is the sole inhabitant. Whatever the failings or lapses of this book, Eloy Martínez does an excellent job of weaving together the contrasting even inimical strands of Perón's story, her life and beyond, in an absorbing riveting and provocative way. As a non-native-Spanish-language reader I read this novel without difficulty. I rate the novel very highly in every respect. Just be prepared to have your breath knocked out of you!!!

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Santa Evita 9788897505228 Books Reviews

Una obra llena de referencias que aún se encuentran flotando en el misterio de la vida y obra de Eva Duarte de Peró. Recomendable para quienes, fascinados por esa época del peronismo, quisiran conocer más de cerca los entreveros de una vida de novela. Hubiera deseado, uizá, mayor profundidad en el carácter demla protagonista. Excelente lectura.
Interesante pero increíble. Visitamos el Museo de Evita en Buenos Aires y movieron su cuerpo varías veces pero seguramente no apareció en un club de tira
A very interesting book about Evita, from her childhood to the end of her life. She led such an unusual life, her story is almost like fiction. How ironic that the charmed life she led ended so early.
She was certainly no saint, but so many Argentines worshiped her memory.
This is one of those books that is not a page turner, but does shed some light on a fascinating topic. The Latin America of the 50's was a wild place. The author does a good job it telling all side of the story and does let you know that most of the information is not reliable, but there is no reliable information about this time in history. The book contains mostly stories of what people close to the situation think happened and there is a lot of "he said, she said" in the book. If you are a history buff it is a good read. If you are a serious academic history buff, skip it.
Que es mas historia que novela. Muy entretenida y nutritiva en información. Muestra el valor, la pasión y la divisón por Eva Perón viva y después de viva, porque Ella no muere.
I can't tell if this is fiction or not. I kept checking the cover for "Santa Evita A Novel" but the "A Novel" part was never there. The title page has it listed under the Library of Congress as 'fiction' ... but I'd have to do much more (extensive!) research to make a determination.

Before I read this what I'd known of Evita was the disney-fied version of Andrew Llyod Weber/Tim Rice in their musical 'Evita' - this opened up whole new doors over who Eva Duarte Peron was, and what she meant to the country of Argentina. Even if this is a piece of historical fiction ... it's worth the read because I do think that it helps one to understand the mindset of the Argentinians at the time both before and after Eva Peron's death.

Excellent read.
This book was published in 1995 by Tomás Eloy Martínez, an Argentinian who lived in the United States, and translated into English the following year. It recounted fragmented episodes from Eva Perón's life and decline, recovered mainly from the memories of various people who'd known her, as reported accurately or otherwise by the author. Mixed into this were the story of what happened to her embalmed body following her death in 1952, as the government that had overthrown her husband's regime sought to obliterate her memory, together with the author's fitful meditations on the nature of reality, her life's meaning and the significance of it all.

Making Perón's corpse the center of the novel and focus of everyone's attention was a fantastic conceit. The author searched in the present day for clues to her life, while in the past the paranoid military officials sought haplessly to hide or dispose of her indestructible body and its copies. That a number of these episodes apparently happened or were based on fact was surreal, rivaling imaginary creations of magic realists.

At the same time, putting a silent corpse at the book's center meant certain limitations in the narrative, and eventually this reader's interest flagged. Though the "facts" from life were riveting, in the book's second half the reminiscences and meditations started becoming a bit tiresome. The last few chapters, set mainly in Europe, were barely readable, as if the author had lost interest in narrating events coherently after the government shipped Eva Perón abroad. It was more important for the author to keep her as an unknowable void, a blank screen on which everyone projected their emotions throughout, than to creatively imagine her speaking at the end from the grave.

Given the novel's focus on the officials' obsessions with the body and their unhappy fates, it was a surprise that nothing was made of her husband's own obsession, keeping her body with him near the end of his exile in Spain. And little was made of her eventual return to Buenos Aires and interment in Recoleta Cemetery, the famed city of the dead. One would've thought such circumstances would be rich in symbolism for the author.

Finally, what did it add up to? The novel was a monument, perhaps, to people's capacity to deceive themselves, to trade reality for myth, to lose themselves in absurd dramas, to become unhinged. To the mysterious gap between what Perón started out in life as and what she became, and her transformation again in death. And to her impact on the memory of a nation, and on the author.

Some excerpts

"Reality is not a straight line but a system of forking paths."

"Why does history have to be a story told by sensible people and not the delirious raving of losers . . .? If history -- as appears to be the case -- is just another literary genre, why take away from it the imagination, the foolishness, the indiscretion, the exaggeration, and the defeat that are the raw materials without which literature is inconceivable?"

"[The Peróns] lied because they could no longer tell what was true and what was false, and because, consummate actors both, they had begun to portray themselves in other roles. They lied because they had decided that, from that moment on, reality would be what they wanted it to be. They did the same thing novelists do."

"She would outdo him by virtue of the weight of her love for him. The one who loves the most has the most power . . . . The vastness of her love included everything. It embraced her husband as well, it encompassed him. In other words, it devoured him."

"Evita is the return to the horde, the anthropophagous instinct of the species, the ignorant beast that bursts blindly into the glassware shop of beauty."

"If we'd killed the embalmer, the body would have decomposed all by itself. It's too big a body now, bigger than the country. It's too full of things. We've all kept putting something into it s--t, hatred, wanting to kill it again."

"We thought that in Argentina, which prided itself on being Cartesian and European, there was no place for any delirious notions of reality."
I have described this novel as unputdownable, but there were many times when I needed to put it down just to draw breath and shake my head in disbelief. I have to admit I knew next to nothing of Evita Perón before entering this "stranger than fiction" account of her life, told backwards from death to childhood, and forwards as Eloy Martínez pursues her sequestered corpse and the destinies of its captors. As a novel I found it hard to untangle what might be purely novelistic aspects, such as the later Reeperbahn episode, but most of what I could check proved astonishingly true to the story. At first I did not like the intrusion of Eloy Martínez as a protagonist in the story, but later I appreciated that the novel is also in part a case study in how the past is reconstructed and re-represented where reality fact history and fiction collide. The story of this nondescript unexceptional woman rising from rags to power to gain a near-Religious or supernatural mystique binding an entire nation bends reality fact history fiction until they are devoured by myth, of which Perón is the sole inhabitant. Whatever the failings or lapses of this book, Eloy Martínez does an excellent job of weaving together the contrasting even inimical strands of Perón's story, her life and beyond, in an absorbing riveting and provocative way. As a non-native-Spanish-language reader I read this novel without difficulty. I rate the novel very highly in every respect. Just be prepared to have your breath knocked out of you!!!