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Manuel Puig Biography

Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (December 28, 1932 – July 22, 1990) was an Argentine author. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, 1968), Boquitas pintadas (Heartbreak Tango, 1969), and El beso de la mujer araña (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1976) which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.

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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

Copies, Copy, Create, Pleasure

Writers are not meant for action.

Action, Writers, Meant

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Countries, Country, Give, Latin, Usa

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

American, Certain, Cinema, Literature, Reality, Superficial

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Intellectual, Novelists, Literature, Essayist, Fantasy, Novelist

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

Believe, Fear, Literature, Special, Taste

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

Stay Strong, New York, Teaching, Papers, Way

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

Writing, Simple, Ukulele, Childhood, Finished, Excited

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

Author, Become, Like, Selling

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

Language, Original, Tasks, Tension, Tensions

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

Content, Form, Place, Rule, Should

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Innermost, Needs, Power, Reduce, Trying, Use

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Book, Helped, Literature, Reviews, Waste, Work

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

Analysis, Believe, Constitution, Nothing, Realism, Reality

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Character, Characters, Literature, Novelist, Novelists, Unconscious

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Beauty, Like, Poetry, Theme, Themes

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Entire, Movie, Needs, Problems, Stories, Story

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

Cells, Live, Reality, Study, Transcend

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Dream, Reality, Thinking, Cinema, Closer, Allegories

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Hollywood, Hope, Matter, Way

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