I'll be back and I'll be millions

This book takes note of the literary validity of Eva Perón in current Argentine narrative, approaching her figure through a handful of novels whose strategies allow us to compare different representational modalities.Initially, two antagonistic literary traditions are identified, one Peronist and the other anti-Peronist, which tend respectively to her beatification or demonization. It is also noted the early proliferation of mass consumer products that made Eva an "artifact" that corresponds to the dynamics of the culture industry and eclipses her message.It is also pointed out that the artistic trajectory prior to her meteoric political career supports the theory of populist simulacrum, while her beatification does so in the back-and-forth between popular religiosity and the use of her body and voice as "bridges of love" between institutional power and the pure people.As regards the specific analysis of the works, the novels Evita, la loca de la casa by Daniel Herrendorf (2003), Eva Perón y la orden de los constructores by Gustavo Brondino (2007) and the trilogy Cine by Juan Martíni (2009-2010-2011) are explored.

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Doctor en Letras. Becario posdoctoral del CONICET y miembro del equipo de investigación el proyecto "Literatura y política: construcciones de lo popular y representaciones sociales en la literatura argentina". Autor del libro "Literatura y peronismo: configuraciones de la cultura popular en la narrativa argentina de la década del 2000" (2017).