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Genre/Form: | Satire Fiction Political fiction Historical fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Carlos Gamerro; Ian Barnett, (Translator) |
ISBN: | 1908276509 9781908276506 |
OCLC Number: | 875240290 |
Notes: | "First published as La aventura de los bustos de Eva in 2004 by Grupo Editorial, Norma, Buenos Aires, Argentina"--Title page verso. |
Description: | 345 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Ch. 1 The Finger of Tamerlan -- ch. 2 Marrone by Marrone -- ch. 3 The Bosses' Bacchanal -- ch. 4 The Proletarian Bourgeois -- ch. 5 Seven Debating Hats -- ch. 6 The Sansimonazo -- ch. 7 A Peronist Childhood -- ch. 8 The Foundation -- ch. 9 Evita City. |
Other Titles: | Aventura de los bustos de Eva. |
Responsibility: | Carlos Gamerro ; translated by Ian Barnett in collaboration with the author. |
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Praise for The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Peron: 'Some may feel that the armed militancy of the 1970s shouldn't be the subject of knockabout comedy; others, that Eva Peron shouldn't be a target for satire. But in its disection of operative myths and its demystification, The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Peron proposes an effective literary language for the purpose.' Soledad Quereilhac, La Nacion ------- 'The more we laugh at the tragicomic hero Ernesto Marrone, this child of rigorous capitalism turned Montonero revolutionary, the more we empathise with Gamerro, the father of this child who is convinced he can apply the sermons of self-help manuals to breathe new life into the Revolution.' Silvina Friera, Pagina ------- Praise for The Islands: 'Carlos Gamerro has written one of the most ambitious novels about the war." Jonathan Blitzer, The Nation ------- 'The reader is dragged headlong by Barnett's athletic translation - a highly addictive comic voice, its peaks of hectic farce underlaid by a delicate, deadpan absurdism.' Times Literary Supplement ------- 'A weird and wonderful thriller - rife with surreal horror and rampant bad taste.' The Observer ------- 'Exhilarating, inventive and consistently absorbing.' The Guardian ------- Read more...


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- Argentina -- Politics and government -- 1955-1983 -- Fiction.
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