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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
    Die Engel von Hollywood
    Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
    Pubis Angelical
    Kiss of the Spider Woman
    Blood of Requited Love
    Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
    • 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 rosas2002
      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.

      Vabank2002
      2.0
    • "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.

      Clásicos Contemporáneos Internacionales - 10: Sangre de amor correspondido1997
      3.7
    • Boquitas pintadas

      • 253 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      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.

      Boquitas pintadas1992
      4.1
    • Scende la notte tropicale

      • 250 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      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 tropicale1989
      3.0