Ernesto Alterio recommends this thrilling historical novel

You create it or not, the world of cinema and television is full of stars that charge millions for playing characters of those who barely know anything. For example, Jacob Elordi acknowledged that before playing Elvis Presley in PriscillaI just knew him for Disney’s animated movie Lilo & Stitch. It is also surprising that Hugh Jackman had never heard of the X-Men and did not even know that gluttons were real animals before accepting their iconic wolverine role. Others, on the other hand, decide on purpose to get fresh to the role, such as Micheal Gambon, who did not read any of Harry Potter’s books before dumbledore. Or like Ernesto Alteriothe protagonist of this article, which states: “I am afraid that when reading the original source I get the imagination.”

The protagonist of films such as The other side of the bed o Perfect strangers and series like Narcos: Mexico or the recent one His Majestyson of another great actor such as Héctor Alterio and brother of another great actress such as Malena Alterio, confessed this custom in an interview with eldiario in which he talked about his great fondness for reading. “I love reading and is part of my daily activities,” I said, before citing The endless storyby Michael Ende o My family and other animalsby Gerald Durrell, like the first books that hooked on reading.

A classic of the great Latin American literature

Ernesto Alterio only recognizes that once breached his custom, reading the novel on which the series was going to participate, before starting to roll it. The book in question is Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez and this title, basic reference to understand the contradictions and disagreements of current Argentina, is the root of the series of the same name that can now be seen in Disney+.

“Fascinating novel where the embalmed body of Eva Duarte de Perón is the protagonist of a real story,” said the interpreter, synthesizing in a single phrase a book that caught him so much that “I couldn’t stop reading it.” In the miniseries, based on real events, he gets into the skin of the sinister Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Eugenio Moori Koenig. He is the one in charge of disappearing Eva Perón’s embalmed body Three years after his death, developing a sickly passion for the body that ended up leading him to madness.

In the novel, the main protagonist is the body of Eva Duarte de Perón, a beauty in life and an ethereal beauty of 1.25 m after the work of the Spanish embalador Pedro Ara. A body of which several copies were made and that, in His crazy traveling around the world For twenty -six years, it disrupts those who approach and confuse with a drift people who have not lost the hope of their return.

The life of María Eva Duarte de Perón, better known as Evita, First Lady of Argentina during the presidency of Juan Domingo Perón between 1946 and 1952, was so mythical that he inspired one of the most popular musicals in history. Many years after his death, his name is synonymous with legend. But what was almost as novel as his fleeting life was The Odyssey of more than two decades who suffered his body after death. And that you can discover in a very interesting book about a figure that for some was goddess, queen, lady and mother and for others a resentful, climbing and ordinary illiterate.

This intrigue thriller is signed by Tomás Eloy Martínez (Tucumán, 1934 – Buenos Aires, 2010), who was a writer and journalist, film screenwriter and Argentine essayist. Other of his outstanding works, in case you want to deepen them are Perón’s novel (1985) and the one that made him win in 2002 the Alfaguara novel Award: The queen’s flightan irresistible novel about the force born from the dark face of desire.