Manuel Puig
ARGENTINA, 1932-1990
Manuel Puig created a unique body of work out of Hollywood films, conversations with neighbors and a judicious combination of realism and melodrama. After the appearance of his early novels he had a string of successes, which opened up the worlds of cinema and theatre and brought him international prestige.
"It is his mastery of plot and counter-plot and the intrigues
-those of his characters and his own- that elevate Puig
to the level of his peers (Borges and García Marquez)."
WASHINGTON POST
"The brilliantly inventive Argentinian novelist."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"The more serious I get in real life, the weirder the things I write. That's why one of my favorite writers is Manuel Puig, who has such a free imagination. I find a very strong point in common between his literature and mine."
HARUKI MURAKAMI
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By Manuel Puig
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Dear Family (Volum one: European letters. Volume two: American letters)
LETTERS, 2006
In 1956, at twenty-three, Manuel Puig leaves the port city of Buenos Aires for a scholarship at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. During the six years of this intense European...
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NOVEL, 1993
An old Italian emigrant in Argentina dreams of the masterpieces of neorealist cinema. The same character, after receiving a letter, seeks out his identity among the ruins of post-war Europe,...
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The Death Rattle of a Decade, New York, ‘78
SHORT STORIES, 1993
The Death Rattle of a Decade, New York, ’78 is a book that needs to be discovered. On the one hand, the stories within it make for an incredibly fascinating volume; and on the other...
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NOVELA, 1988
In the twilight of their lives, two sisters remember their past and discuss the love affairs of a younger neighbour whose character grows and becomes more defined through their stories....
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NOVEL, 1982
A story of adolescent love plays out in the vivid, vast setting of Rio – a storm of precocious, indecent passion – and a remote village in the Brazilian countryside. Seen from a...
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Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
NOVEL, 1980
This novel brings Manuel Puig’s fiction to unexpected places. Here, we are presented with the bitter, destructive encounter of two forms of New York solitude: a sick Argentinian and his...
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NOVEL, 1979
Pubis Angelical tells one story folded into two parallel planes in time, each told by different areas of the protagonist’s mind. In the real world, it tells the tale of a sick woman in a...
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NOVEL, 1976
During the military dictatorship in Argentina, a political militant and a homosexual share a Buenos Aires prison cell. Trying to ease the continuous fear and solitude of their incarceration, the...
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NOVEL, 1973
The Buenos Aires Affair tells the tale of the final days of Leo Druscovich. Between 1930 and 1969, a coup and a popular uprising in Cordoba provide the background for a story about the enigma of...
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NOVEL, 1969
This text takes us back into Argentine history, the sordid underworld of romantic novels seen with unflinching objectivity through a parody of journalistic language, ferociously impassive...
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NOVEL, 1968.
A dusty town in the Argentine pampas, 1939. A timid boy who feels different from all the others finds refuge in the cinema. Between showings, Toto uses his family and neighbours as shields to...
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