Manuel Puig was an Argentine author whose work delves into the realm of popular culture and its impact on individual lives. His novels frequently explore themes of love, desire, and the search for identity, employing a unique blend of high and low culture. Puig's distinctive style, characterized by its use of dialogue and incorporation of elements from film and pop songs, subverts traditional narrative forms. His writing examines the complexities of human relationships and the illusions we construct.
When Ramirez, an Argentinian exile and invalid in his seventies, who is confined to a wheelchair and unable to feel emotions, hires Larry, a young, down-on-his-luck American, a curious, multi-layered relationship develops
This is a new novel by Puig, an Argentine novelist who is also author of "Betrayed by Rita Hayworth", "The Buenos Aires Affair" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman".
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before.
A brilliant tour-de-force about paranoia and sexual obsession, about the conscious and unconscious lives of a contemporary woman, from the acclaimed author of Kiss of the Spiderwoman.
Ha muerto Juan Carlos Etchepare. Era un seductor: amó, fue amado. Ha muerto un galán de los años cuarenta. Y hay una mujer que guarda unas cartas de amor. Veinte años más tarde, también ella habrá muerto, y el fuego devorará, con esas cartas, el último eco, lejano y desvaído ya, de una historia dolorosa y fugaz. Es la otra cara del tango, la sordidez al acecho tras los colores pálidos de la novela rosa o el papel satinado de las revistas del corazón. Es una obra maestra de Manuel Puig: la crónica sentimental de un país y una época, y la crítica más clarividente y feroz de una vida social sordamente cruel.
"This inventive novel is a series of questions and confessional answers, an internal dialogue between Josemar, a construction worker, and Maria, a privileged young woman. Looking back at the teenage passion they shared from the remove of ten years, they try to reconstruct their story despite the obstacles of times passage, societal disapproval, and family pressure. Set in a provincial Brazilian town, Blood of Requited Love explores memory and its failings, self-deception and its costs, and the hidden manacles of machismo.
From one of Latin America's most celebrated writers--author of Kiss of the Spider Woman--comes his poignant yet hard-edged final novel. At the heart of the story are two elderly Argentine sisters who share a life of gentle gossip. But through their conversations, Puig reveals the chaotic, violent lives of their neighbors.
