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Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934–2010)

Autor(a) de Santa Evita

30 Works 1,441 Membros 59 Críticas 2 Favorited

About the Author

Tomás Eloy Martínez was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina on July 16, 1934. He received an undergraduate degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the National University of Tucumán and a master's degree from the University of Paris. He was a novelist, journalist, essayist and mostrar mais critic. In the early 1970s, he conducted long interviews with Juan Domingo Perón in Madrid, where the general was living in exile. In 1975, while eating lunch in a Buenos Aires restaurant, he received word that when he stepped outside, he would be assassinated by a right-wing paramilitary group. Since there was no back door, he decided to document his own murder and phoned his newspaper requesting a photographer. When a swarm of photographers descended, the assassins scattered. He fled the country and eventually ended up in the United States, where he taught at the University of Maryland in the mid-1980s. His works include The Perón Novel (La Novela de Perón), Santa Evita, and The Tango Singer (El Cantor de Tango). He taught at Rutgers University from 1995 until his death. He died as the result of a brain tumor on January 31, 2010 at the age of 75. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Tomás Eloy Martínez

Santa Evita (1995) 675 exemplares
The Tango Singer (2004) 218 exemplares
Purgatory (2009) 175 exemplares
The Perón Novel (1985) 151 exemplares
The Flight of the Queen (2002) 141 exemplares
The Hand of the Master (1991) 20 exemplares
The Passion According to Trelew (1997) 11 exemplares
Requiem for a Lost Country (2003) 9 exemplares
True Fictions (2000) 5 exemplares
Common Place - Death (1998) 5 exemplares
Tinieblas para mirar (2014) 4 exemplares
La otra realidad : antología (2006) 4 exemplares
The Memoirs of the General (1996) 3 exemplares
Tango şarkıcısı (2005) 2 exemplares
The Argentine Dream (1999) 2 exemplares
La Novela De Pern 1 exemplar
La Mano Del Amo 1 exemplar
KENGETARI I TANGOS 1 exemplar
Zborul reginei (2006) 1 exemplar
The Lives of the General (2009) 1 exemplar
Honoris causa (2004) 1 exemplar
La mano del amo (2010) 1 exemplar
Santa Evita [Saint Evita] (2019) 1 exemplar
Purgatorio 1 exemplar

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La storia del cadavere di Evita Perón è una di quelle che, se fosse stata creata dalla fantasia di qualche autorǝ, l’avrei bollata come incredibile. Già l’idea di far imbalsamare un cadavere mi sembra così strana (anche se, per esempio, con i papi si fa ancora), figuriamoci se poi questo cadavere diventa oggetto di culto e timori e viene quindi nascosto a destra e a manca per non farlo trovare a chi potrebbe usarlo per rafforzare la resistenza peronista.

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.
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lasiepedimore | 18 outras críticas | Jan 12, 2024 |
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.… (mais)
 
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grahzny | 18 outras críticas | Jul 17, 2023 |
En el invierno de 1976 Simón Cardoso es detenido por los militares que impusieron una dictadura sangrienta en Argentina, y nunca más aparece. Treinta años después, su mujer Emilia Dupuy, se paraliza al oír su voz en una fonda de suburbio en New Jersey. El mundo, que se había desmoronado con la tragedia, recobra su luz.
A partir de ese enigma, Purgatorio enlaza la ansiedad del amor perdido y recuperado con una reconstrucción magistral de la irrealidad siniestra creada por el régimen. Tomás Eloy Martínez vivió en el exilio y escribió este relato conmovedor e inolvidable en busca de la memoria que no pudo tener.… (mais)
 
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Natt90 | 23 outras críticas | Mar 28, 2023 |
El vuelo de la reina es una novela irresistible sobre la fuerza que nace de la cara oscura del deseo. Entre Camargo, el poderoso director del principal diario de Buenos Aires, y Reina Remis, una joven periodista a la que dobla la edad, surge una pasión que los conduce a un peligroso juego de obsesiones. La intriga y el suspense erótico pueblan esta historia de dominaciones, corrupción e instrumentos de poder, hasta dibujar un final imprevisible, consecuencia última de la ambición desmedida y del presente y el pasado del protagonista.… (mais)
 
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Natt90 | 1 outra crítica | Mar 24, 2023 |

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Obras
30
Membros
1,441
Popularidade
#17,844
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
59
ISBN
146
Línguas
17
Marcado como favorito
2

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