The Eternal portrays the story of Juan Salvo, a man who faces a lethal sparkle in Buenos Aires. The material reflects fears of the Cold War
With the Premiere – and the success – from the adaptation of THE Eternalin Netflix, the history of one of the creators of project original also it returned the to win relevance. THE work of Hector Oesterheld, illustrated put Francis Solane Spleez, and one fiction scientific with strong criticism social, what it would have contributed to the disappearance of author and of your daughters during the last dictatorship military in Argentina.
First publishedbetween 1957 and 1959, THE Eternaland one of works more striking from the history of the comic in America Latin. THE Comic book narra the history of Juan Saved, one man what, to the side of dear people, face one blizzard lethal in Buenos Aires – event what reveals one invasion alien in quite the one catastrophe global.
With one setting postapocalyptic, the narrative reflect fears from the War Cold, as the fear of attacks nuclear and the threat of undoing in mass, but yet without one bias political explicit. Node However, themes as resistance collective and solidarity already appeared of shape subtle in work.
In 1969, the magazine Peopleordered one new version of THE Eternal, what it happened the to have one tone more openly political. Second researchers as Fabio Bortolazzo Chick, Oesterheld reformulated the history with criticism more egg to the authoritarianism and to the inequalities social, in tune with the context political from the Argentina node end from the decade of 1960 – period of growing voltage between movements popular and the power state.
The disappearance itself
With the stroke military of 24 of March of 1976, started-if in Argentina one dictatorship marked put repression policy, censorship and disappearance forced. In that period, Oesterheld and your four daughters – Diana, Stele, Beatriz and Marina – militated node group armed MONTONERS, what made opposition to the regime. In 1977, all they were kidnapped put forces linked the repression. None from them he was visa again, and follow until today as missing. THE wife by the author, Elsa Sánchez, dedicated your life the seek justice and to maintain alive the memory from the family.
THE trajectory of Hectorand today recognized as one of the case more symbolic from the repression the artists and intellectuals during the dictatorship Argentina. In era, to the stories in comic yet they were little valued as expression cultural legitimate, especially between to the elites.
Decades after, THE Eternalif consolidated as one March from the fiction scientific and from the resistance policy in America Latin. THE work he was translated to several languages and continues being reissued, studied in universities and adapted in new Formats – as in series launched for the Netflix.
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