La novela de Perón Spanish-language edition

by MARTINEZ, TOMAS ELOY

• ISBN13: 9780679781462
• ISBN10: 0679781463
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-06
• Publisher: Vintage Espanol

Summary

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Santa Evita comes a dazzling fictional portrait of Juan Peron, the most revered -- and hated -- dictator in the history of Argentina. Following the ailing general from his return to his homeland after eighteen years of exile to his death scarcely a year later, Tomas Eloy Martinez has created a novel whose fantasy only heightens its humanity. For in The Peron Novel the mask of history is lifted to reveal a tragically hollow man who was born a follower until the moment he found himself transformed into a leader. The result is a tour de force, the most audacious and compelling meditation on absolute power since Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch.

Author Biography

Tomás Eloy Martinez nació en Argentina en el año 1934. Su obra, traducida a siete idiomas, es considerada una de las más sólidas y deslumbrantes de la literatura Latinoamérica. Sus libros publicados incluyen Lugar común la muerte (1973), La mano del amo (1991) y Santa Evita (1995). En 1983 obtuvo una beca del Wilson Center y en 1987 una beca Guggenheim. Actualmente dirige el Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la universidad Rutgers en Nueva Jersey donde es Profesor Distinguido.