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Manuel Puig (1932 - 1990)
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Puig and the Spider Woman : His Life and Fictions by
Suzanne Jill Levine
Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentinian author of
Kiss of the Spider Woman and pioneer of high camp, stands alone in
the pantheon of contemporary Latin American literature. Strongly
influenced by Hollywood films of the thirties and forties, his
many-layered novels and plays integrate serious fiction and
popular culture, mixing political and sexual themes with B-movie
scenarios. When his first two novels were published in the late
1960s, they delighted the public but were dismissed as frivolous
by the leftist intellectuals of the Boom; his third novel was
banned by the Peronist government for irreverence. His influence
was already felt, though-even by writers who had dismissed him-and
by the time the film version of Kiss of the Spider Woman became a
worldwide hit, he was a renowned literary figure.
Puig's way of life was as unconventional as his
fiction: he spoke of himself in the female form in Spanish,
renamed his friends for his favorite movie stars, referred to his
young male devotees as "daughters," and, as a perennial
expatriate, lived (often with his mother) everywhere from Rome to
Rio de Janeiro. Suzanne Jill Levine, his principal English
translator, draws upon years of friendship as well as copious
research and interviews in her remarkable book, the first
biography of the inimitable writer.
 Pubis
Angelical by
Manuel Puig, Elena Brunet (Translator)
In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and
science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three
women-an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband's fairy-tale
castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s, convalescing in
a hospital; and a futuristic cyborg sex slave, occupying an
artificial landscape. In the haunting and mysterious language for
which he is renowned, Puig explores the links between these women,
as well as the links between genders and generations.
Best known for his novel Kiss of the Spider
Woman, which has been adapted as a movie and a Broadway musical,
Manuel Puig (1932-1990) also wrote Blood of Requited Love and
Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages (both published by the
University of Minnesota Press, 1999), as well as Betrayed by Rita
Hayworth, Heartbreak Tango, and The Buenos Aires Affair.
"The most richly textured and extravagant
fiction Puig has produced so far. . . . Brilliantly
inventive." -- New York Times
"Puig will now command attention from
readers not previously familiar with his fiction." -- Library
Journal
"This is Puig's best work." -- Choice
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By Claire Poche
Excerpt:
In 1963 Puig returned to Argentina. Despite
General Ongania's established dictatorship, Puig was able to work
in relative peace. By 1973, however, Isabel Peron, Juan Peron's
widow, was in power and pulling the legislative reins as tight as
possible to create an extremely right-wing air in the country.
After publication of The Buenos Aires Affair, a book which
metaphorically criticized Peronist policies, Puig was added to
Isabel's hit-list. In 1974, a phone call urged him to leave the
country in order to avoid persecution and/or death. Though
Isabel's government did not last long, Argentinean resistance to
Puig's work remained and he was forced to seek foreign publication
of his subsequent works...
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From The Knitting Circle
Excerpt:
He became well-known internationally with his
novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, (1979), especially after is
was made into a film in 1985. It was also made into a Broadway
musical in 1993. The story is about two men in prison cells
together. One is a hairdresser who tells fantastic tales based on
film plots. Through these he seduces his cell-mate, a macho
revolutionary...
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By Jorgelina Corbatta, Translated and adapted by
Ilan Stavans, Center
for Book Culture
Excerpt:
This interview with Manuel Puig took place
during a weekend in September 1979, after he was part of a
Congress of Hispanic-American Writers in Medellin, Colombia. Other
participants in the event were Camilo Jose Cela, winner of the
1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the Mexican short-story
writer and novelist Juan Rulfo...
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