Publication

2000-07-01 - Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)

Language

English

Word Count

112,000 words, Guess

Page Count

448 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number99039130
  • LibraryThing137783
  • Goodreads965085

Classifications

  • LCCPQ7798.26.U4 Z772 2000

Description

"Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentinian author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and pioneer of high camp, stands alone in the pantheon of contemporary Latin American literature. Strongly influenced by Hollywood films of the thirties and forties, his many-layered novels and plays integrate serious fiction and popular culture, mixing political and sexual themes with B-movie scenarios. When his first two novels were published in the late sixties, they delighted the public but were dismissed as frivolous by the leftist intellectuals of the Boom; his third novel was banned by the Peronist government for irreverence. His influence was already felt though - even by writers who had dismissed him - and by the time the film version of Kiss of the Spider Woman became a worldwide hit, he was a renowned literary figure."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman : His Life and FictionsFarrar Straus & Giroux (T)2000-07-01

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