Titles
- Eva, Alpha y Omega / Pogrom del cabecita negra
- Los rieles
- El marido de mi madrastra (stories)
- Las Primas (novel)
- Nosotros. Los Caserta (novel)
Eva, Alfa y Omega (Eva, alpha and omega) and
Pogrom del cabecita negra (Pogrom of the cabecita negra)
Two novels by Aurora Venturini in one book: One of them, Eva, Alfa y Omega, tells of her friendship with Eva Perón and had to wait years to be written. The other, Pogrom del cabecita negra, had to wait decades for republication. Together, they form a unity. Venturini of then and now – and, as always, masterly.
In Eva, Alfa y Omega, her newest work, Venturini remembers her “mythological” friendship with Eva Duarte de Perón, the big subject of her life. The novel is autobiographic as well as fictional.
“When this woman stepped onto the balcony, she didn’t have a speech prepared. But when she saw how the masses raised their arms, the words gushed out of her to form an exquisite, invincible, original speech. She made her audience vibrate.”
This novel is accompanied by another of her great historical fictions about Peronism. Pogrom del cabecita negra (1969) belongs to the most fundamental novels by Aurora Venturini – the simple, true and shocking story of one of Argentina’s deepest abysses.
Argentina: Sudamericana, 2014
