Practical Work Literature "That Woman" by Rodolfo Walsh

Students: Cerrato Florencia, Gaona Alejandro, Piccione Camila, Zalazar

Alejandro.
1) Search for a brief biography of Rodolfo Walsh
Rodolfo Jorge Walsh was born on January 9, 1927 in Lamarque, Province of Rio Negro,
Argentina. He was a journalist, writer and translator, he was part of the FAP and
Montoneros guerrilla organizations. Recognized for being a pioneer in Non-fiction
novels such as Operation Massacre. He was an opponent of the last dictatorship that
governed Argentina between 1976 and 1983. After the publication of the Open Letter
From a Writer to the Military Junta, he was ambushed and riddled with bullets by a
task force which took his body and kidnapped him. After this he became part of the list
of missing persons.
2) Social and historical context
The events of this story are inspired by what happened in Argentina during the theft of
Evita Perón's body by the Liberating Revolution and everything that this entailed, the
way in which it was transferred to different places and the atrocities that were done
with it. body. As for the social aspect, it was seen how the people who were followers
were looking for the body, this even caused one time that one of the soldiers who
stole the body confused a pregnant woman and killed her thinking that she was a
Peronist commando who was looking to recover the body.
3) Who are the interlocutors who carry out the dialogue in "Esa Mujer"? To what
social sphere does each one belong?
The interlocutors who carry out the dialogue are The Colonel and The Journalist
(Walsh), the colonel is from a very good economic position since in the narration he
describes that he has very expensive and valuable objects in the house. , while the
journalist is from a lower-middle social class, although not much is described during
the narration.
4) What happened to "that woman"? Why did he die? What happened to his body,
according to the colonel?
"That Woman" died from uterine cancer, her body was kidnapped by the Liberating
Revolution, the colonel himself claims to be the one who removed the body, he relates
what she looked like, how the metastasis of the cancer was noticeable and how she
looked like a virgin. They intended to disappear the body either by burning it or
throwing it into the water. Although the colonel was the one who kept the body in his
house for a long time and then reburied her standing upright according to him.
5) From the following quote: "The colonel is looking for some names, some papers
that I may have. I'm looking for a dead woman, a place on the map (…) The
 colonel knows where she is." What is the objective of each of the interlocutors?
Can they accomplish it? Extract the quote that allows you to answer this last
question
The journalist's objective is to find where the woman's body is while the colonel seeks to
clear his name. Neither of them manage to accomplish what they wanted since the
colonel gets lost due to alcohol and is left muttering that this woman is his, while the
journalist leaves empty-handed without being able to find out where the woman's body is.
Quote: He stops slowly, he doesn't know me. Maybe he's going to ask me who I am, what I'm
doing there. And while I leave defeated, thinking that I will have to return, or that I will never
return. While my index finger already begins that tireless itinerary through the maps, joining
isohyets, probabilities, complicities. While I know that I am no longer interested, and that I will not
lift a finger, not even on a map, the Colonel's voice reaches me like a revelation:
"It's mine," he says simply. That woman is mine.

6) Descriptions of space in non-fiction are a way of returning to the real event:

 Where are the journalist and the colonel? What is that space like?
The Journalist and the Colonel find themselves in a living room or living room. The
room has a large window, a table, chairs, furniture, ornate ivory and bronze,
Meissen and Canton dishes, a cracked glass lamp, and two whiskey glasses. Near
the room is a door that leads out of the Colonel's home.
 What is the narrator trying to convey by mentioning some particular objects?
The narrator wants to convey the Colonel's psychological situation, with broken
and untidy things, he wants to show how he resorts to drinking to not think about
his problems. As the Colonel really is, someone who escalates his problems,
someone who doesn't care much about the rest, someone who believes he is
better than the rest.
 Is there any description in the dialogue between the two characters? Who
states it? What is described?
Yes, there is a description. The Colonel describes to the narrator what Evita's body
was like, "-That woman," I hear him murmur. She was naked in the coffin and
looked like a virgin. The skin had turned transparent. You could see the metastases
of the cancer, like those little drawings you draw on a wet window."
7) Look in the story how the journalist characterizes the colonel:
 What parts of the body does it mostly describe? As it does?
He does not describe the colonel much physically, only the actions he performs,
the only thing we know about him is that he is a large, gray-haired man with a
wide, tanned face, and large, hairy hands, the latter being understood since he
sweats a lot and dries his hands. face constantly.
  What action does the colonel perform several times throughout the story?
Why do you think the narrator wants to portray the colonel in that way?
The action that the Colonel performs during the story is drinking whiskey and we
answer the reason for this in question 6)b
8) Choose a moment of tension in the text and argue why you consider it this way.
A moment of tension is when the Colonel reveals to the Journalist how he buried "that
woman", the Journalist becomes tense to know the truth, gets upset, leaves his role of
being in favor of the Colonel and begins to question everything. , trying to get the
truth. By trying to discover where she is buried he becomes exasperated and gets
nothing but the silence of a drunk.
9) In reading Walsh's work you can observe the characteristics of the non-fiction
story, state and explain which ones you observe in "That Woman."
Characteristics of non-fiction observed in “That Woman”:
Walsh writes the exact dialogues that occurred when speaking with the colonel
Throughout the story Walsh is trying to get information from the Colonel in order to
discover where the body of “That Woman” was.
Take a neutral side in the conflict in order to gather information
Gather testimonies, evidence, etc. to preserve the veracity of the facts.