Manuel Puig

"El primer texto es un guión de cine escrito en 1960; se trata de un melodrama basado en la vida de una actriz (cuya figura evoca a Eva Perón) que apasionadamente intenta socavar y subvertir el orden patriarcal. El segundo, uno de las últimos del autor, también melodramático, se ambienta en el Buenos Aires de 1915, y relata la relación de Gardel con prostitutas polacas"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Translation of: Cae la noche tropical. Two aged Argentine sisters share a life of gossip in tropical Rio.

Argentinian Puig will now command attention from readers not previously familiar with his fiction. In Pubis Angelical he interweaves three stories, the first about a beautiful Viennese actress held captive in a mysterious marriage to a World War II munitions maker. The second and most interesting story, since it encompasses a history of Peronism, concerns an Argentinian refugee, dying in a Mexico City hospital, and her conversations with an old friend and an old lover. The third narrative is a futuristic spy thriller about a secret agent called W218. The implication is that one of the three women is real, the others fantasies or projections. Feminist and political themes are clear; but, except for the moving story of the dying woman, the novel is more confusing than compelling. PW found this to be "a novel of feminine reverie and feminist polemic... revealing very little." --Janet Wiehe, Library Journal & Publishers Weekly.

With the announcement of Juan Carlos Etchepare's death, an unusual tale of love unfolds.

"Compiled together for the first time, here are three plays by Argentine novelist and playwright Manual Puig: the well-known Kiss of the Spider Woman, a sharply provocative tale of love, victimization, and fantasy, and of the friendship that develops between two strikingly different men imprisoned together in a Latin American jail; Puig's first drama written directly for the stage, Under a Mantle of Stars, a recurring dream that is never ending; and Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, an astute tale of deep compassion and illusion." "These eminently readable plays highlight all the gifts that make Puig's fiction so remarkable. This is convincing proof that Manual Puig was one of our most talented writers - no matter what the medium. Puig is the author of seven novels, translated into fourteen languages."--BOOK JACKET.

Twee mannen delen een gevangeniscel in Buenos Aires: Molina, een wegens 'ontucht' door het regime veroordeelde homo en de 'subversieve' politieke activist Valentin. Overdag leest Valentin sociologische boeken, 's nachts vertelt Molina filmverhalen. Deze roman beschrijft de veranderingen die Molina en Valentin onder invloed van elkaar ondergaan. Twee onderling zeer verschillende mannen vertellen elkaar in een Argentijnse gevangeniscel verhalen.

Una antología de historias escritas por autores argentinos que toman como fuente de inspiración el cine y su mundo.

Awash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop songs, and movies. This melancholy and hilarious tango concerns the many women in orbit around Juan Carlos Etchepare, an impossibly beautiful Lothario wasting away ever-so-slowly from consumption, while those who loved and were spurned by him move on into workaday lives and unhappy marriages.

"Extensively revised and updated, the Eighth Edition now features a special eight-page portfolio, "Latin America Through Art" that offers samples from Latin America's rich artistic tradition, revealing both change and continuity in Latin American culture from the arrival of Spaniards in the New World to the present day. Book jacket."--Jacket.