Tinieblas para mirar (relatos)

I have traveled a lot, or on the other hand, I’m still traveling, and I haven’t managed to get comfortable anywhere other than this setting of what is not here, what I don’t have, what I can’t be.” Written over the course of more than half a century, the stories told here a good part of which never before published constitute a synthesis of Tomás Eloy Martínez’s talent and of the subjects that followed him throughout his life: the upheavals in Argentinean life, Peronism and its symbols, exile, sexuality, and death. A failed attempt at switching famous cadavers —those of Evita and Aramburu— with the help of a tanker truck as a vehicle and shelter; the life of a woman who performs choreography every day in a New York train station; the ironic resemblance of a prodigious child destroyed by a possessive mother; the confrontation between the army and some workers in the outskirts of the city of Tucumán shortly after 1955; the legendary adventures of two thieves in the 30s… These are just some of the tales contained herein. These stories shine due to their absolute timelessness, as they confirm the literary depth of an important author.