Article: Evita! (reprinted from 'Santa Evita,' September 1996)

When Eva Peron, wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron, died of cancer in 1952 at the age of thirty-three, she became a legend, a woman who has inspired both the public's imagination and an ongoing list of contemporary works, from the 1979 musical Evita, to the much-discussed, much-anticipated feature film starring Madonna, which will be released this winter, This month, writer Tomas Eloy Martinez comes out with Santa Evita (Knopf), a fictionalized account of her life. In researching his novel, excerpted here, Martinez interviewed people who knew her, and sifted through masses of archived documents, newspaper reports, and film footage. Here, Martinez imagines a scene in which ...

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