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Article: JUAN PERON: MAN AND MYTH
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 21, 1988
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THE PERON NOVEL, by Tomas Eloy Martinez; translated by Asa
Zatz. Pantheon. 357 pp. $19.95.
General Juan Domingo Peron would have appreciated the paradox.
In life, he achieved mythical status. As the central character
in Tomas Eloy Martinez's brilliant "The Peron Novel," a chilling
tale of power, decline and madness, he becomes human again.
Peron -- "the Leader, the General, the Deposed Dictator, the
Macho, You-Know-Who, the Escaped Tyrant, the Nation's First Worker,
Eva Peron's Widower, the Exile, the One Who Had A Piano In Caracas.
God knows what other things he might be tomorrow" -- dominated
political life in Argentina for almost 30 years.
Elected president in 1946 ...