Not Saluting, but Waving
Michael Wood, 20 February 1997
The Making of ‘Evita’
by Alan Parker.
Boxtree, 127 pp., £12.99, December 1996,0 7522 2264 3 Show More
by Alan Parker.
Boxtree, 127 pp., £12.99, December 1996,
In My Own Words
by Eva Perón, translated by Laura Dail.
New Press, 120 pp., $8.95, November 1996,1 56584 353 3 Show More
by Eva Perón, translated by Laura Dail.
New Press, 120 pp., $8.95, November 1996,
Santa Evita
by Tomás Eloy Martínez, translated by Helen Lane.
Doubleday, 371 pp., £15.99, January 1997,0 385 40875 7 Show More
by Tomás Eloy Martínez, translated by Helen Lane.
Doubleday, 371 pp., £15.99, January 1997,
“... Nothing became her life like the remaking of it, but there were so many remakes. The latest stars Madonna, but the earliest starred Eva María Duarte herself. Or was that María Eva Ibarguren? She was María Eva Duarte de Perón on her marriage certificate, but then she also took three years off her age on that occasion. Some of this is easily unravelled, and a number of the remakes are easy to name: country kid to city girl, dancer to actress, brunette to blonde, actress to politician, President’s wife to secular saint ... ”
