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Manuel Puig

    December 28, 1932 – July 22, 1990

    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.

    Manuel Puig
    Scende la notte tropicale
    Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
    Pubis Angelical
    Kiss of the Spider Woman
    Blood of Requited Love
    Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
    • 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

      Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
      3.4
    • Blood of Requited Love

      • 202 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      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".

      Blood of Requited Love
      3.4
    • 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.

      Kiss of the Spider Woman
      3.9
    • Pubis Angelical

      • 236 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      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.

      Pubis Angelical
      3.8
    • Finally back in print, Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. Centering around a boy named Toto, privy to the town's secrets and always eager to fill in the ugly or upsetting moments of his childhood with Hollywood-inspired fantasy, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth is a symphony of disappointed, comic, bitter, and bawdy voices, all hemmed in by life's refusal to behave like the silver screen, and is perhaps the funniest and most honest coming-of-age story of its time.

      Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
    • 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.

      Scende la notte tropicale
      3.9
    • Le plus beau tango du monde

      • 280 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Inventeur d'une vision de la réalité, d'un ton et d'une manière inédits dans la littérature sud-américaine, Manuel Puig a inauguré, avec Le plus beau tango du monde, une véritable rhétorique du cliché, des lieux communs du langage et du comportement, pour mieux percer le subconscient collectif d'un pays - l'Argentine - et d'une époque - les années 1940.

      Le plus beau tango du monde
      4.1
    • The Buenos Aires Affair

      • 314 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Il magistrale e ironico "romanzo giallo" di Manuel Puig riguarda il rapimento di una donna, un omicidio imminente e i vaghi ricordi di un migliaio di vecchie regine del glamour—Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth—che si combinano per creare un potente ritratto di due vite decisamente poco glamour: Gladys Hebe D’Onofrio, una solitaria scultrice di 35 anni, tormentata dalle sue fantasie e perpetuamente in cerca dell'amante ideale; e Leo Druscovich, un critico d'arte apparentemente sicuro di sé e di successo, profondamente turbato da una terribile colpa che riemerge nei suoi ripetuti fallimenti sessuali. Assumendo, scambiando e crescendo nei ruoli di vittima e criminale, le loro vite sono presentate attraverso una varietà di diversi tipi di "prove"—liste, appunti scarabocchiati, trascrizioni, interrogatori unilaterali—queste due anime perdute si trovano gradualmente completamente dipendenti l'una dall'altra... e dirette verso precisamente il tipo di conclusione violenta che un romanzo giallo richiede.

      The Buenos Aires Affair
      3.4
    • Vabank. El misterio del ramo de rosas

      • 75 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Divadelní program ND obsahuje kromě textu hry o dvou ženách (stárnoucí dámě a její pečovatelce) také studii o jejím autorovi a informace o jejích inscenátorech.

      Vabank. El misterio del ramo de rosas
      2.0
    • Vabank

      • 75 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Divadelní program ND obsahuje kromě textu hry o dvou ženách (stárnoucí dámě a její pečovatelce) také studii o jejím autorovi a informace o jejích inscenátorech.

      Vabank
      2.0
    • Román argentinského autora uvádí čtenáře do malého městečka uprostřed pampy. Na pozadí dvou navzájem se proplétajících milostných příběhů líčí autor typickou maloměstskou společnost 30. až 40. let. Pozoruhodná je především forma, které autor užívá: jde o přímé vyprávění, deníkové záznamy, dopisy a vzpomínky, které jako pestrá mozaika dávají dohromady velmi poutavý, lidsky zajímavý a psychologicky hluboký příběh, načrtnutý přitom se stručností filmového scénáře.

      Nejhezčí tango
    • Autorov v poradí druhý román Tango s Panchom (1969), ktorý okrem domácich literárnych i čitateľských kruhov našiel zaslúženú odozvu aj v Európe, zachycuje z viacerých uhlov exotickú atmosféru pampy a argentínskeho vidieka s typickými charaktermi. Dejovú líniu tvoria rozmanité životné osudy,tragédie a ľúbostné romániky viacerých hrdinov, stelesňujúcich mladú generáciu krajiny. Ústredným motívom je parodicky spracovaný pohľad do obdobia tridsiatych a štyridsiatych rokov nášho storočia s jeho konzumnými tendenciami, pokryteckou morálkou a falošnými spoločenskými konvenciami. Hoci Puig pristupuje k vyjadreniu skutočnosti s ironicko-satirickým podtónom, pranieruje a kritizuje, spôsob kresby charakterov prezrádza autorovo porozumenie, zhovievavosť a lásku k jednoduchým ľuďom, ktorí žijú, živoria a umierajú v tiesnivom ovzduší provinčného mestečka. Aktuálnosť spoločenskej problematiky tohto sviežeho a príťažlivého dielka umocňuje svojrázny umelecký prístup využívajúci rôzne štylistické techniky a dôkladnú psychologickú analýzu medziľudských vzťahov.

      Tango s Panchom