At 8:25 Evita Became Immortal

Mario Szichman

1981

The funeral of the lady put Buenos Aires into suspended animation. Past and future were linked by the deterioration of some buildings and the addition of a few new ones that never went beyond the stage of frames and scaffolds.

Trolleys and streetcars went out of circulation. The pallor of vapor lamps replaced the yellow glow of street-lights…

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Mario Szichman

1945–2018
An Argentine writer, journalist, and literary critic, Mario Szichman lived in New York, where he worked for United Press International and the Cadena Capriles media company of Caracas. Szichman wrote about assimilation, identity, tradition, immigration, and antisemitism. In 1980, he received the first literary prize from Ediciones del Norte.

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