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...Christian, and I don't know many black Christians on campus," said O. Denise Martinez '99. "It is important for me to understand the issues that concern them...
...think it is interesting to not be of a certain ethnicity but embrace it as a part of your own culture," said Jessica S. Martinez '98 who attended the reading...
...question is unanswerable, and rather than dwelling on this point, Martinez emphasizes the incompleteness of historical facts. Only fiction can fill in some of the gaps, but even fiction cannot tell the full story of the "Argentine saint." Martinez admits this fundamental inability to the reader: "I accumulated floods of cards and stories so as to be able to fill in all the blank spaces of what, later on, was going to be my novel. But I left them where they were, leaving the story, because I am fond of unexplained blank spaces." Instead of chasing the impossible, Martinez writes...
...same time, the author keeps a running commentary on the nature of history and storytelling. Martinez bases the shifting structure of his story on the idea that "nothing is like anything else, nothing is ever just one story, but a net that each person weaves without knowing the overall pattern." Martinez realizes that the work of other artists who have attempted to capture Evita is part of this patchwork, and he mentions fellow Argentinean writers Rodolfo Walsh and Jorge Luis Borges frequently. He even discusses the opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, calling it precisely the simplification...
...Santa Evita, Evita emerges as a more complex figure whose identity was confused with that of Argentina and the adoring masses. Martinez drags a lifeless body through the pages of his novel, hoping that his presentation of the true-life adventures of Evita's corpse will shed some light on her existence. What emerges is more than just a meditation on the life and death of Eva Peron. Martinez has constructed a remarkably entertaining and insightful look at the way history is formed, insisting that both truth and fiction feed our knowledge of the past and the present...