Interview
Novelist Manuel Puig
“Homosexuality is not something we should judge. More importantly: the act doesn’t make you homosexual.”
Readers of novelist Manuel Puig will never forget the novels of the Argentine man. Using innovative narrative techniques, dark comedy and particularly film, Manuel Puig has been a very successful writer. Born in 1932 in General Villegas, a small town on the Argentine pampas, Puig began studying English at the age of ten, to get a better understanding in American movies he watched daily with his mother. Puig's early passion for the movies is visible in his narrative style, which characterizes itself on dialogue, and in the lives of his characters, where the glamorous and idealized world of films serves as a counterpoint to their own disappointments. In his career, Puig wrote various novels: Heartbreak Tango (1969); The Buenos Aires Affair (1973); The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976); Pubis Angelical(1979); Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages (1980); Blood of Requited Love(1982). On this day, 1989 March 2, we decided to meet Manuel Puig and ask several questions about his life.
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My revisions for the novel were minimal as I wrote it with the greatest ease. Being homosexual has been very difficult to cope with, especially in my younger ages. I know I’m not the only one having difficulties and therefore I decided to write about it. Especially in the past, it was very difficult to be homosexual in Argentina. That’s what my book also expresses. Homosexuality is not something we should judge. More importantly: the act doesn’t make you homosexual. Friendship is something more powerful: an allegory we all should not forget. As for in the novel, the two main characters, Molina and Valentin, become very close and even have sexual intercourse, but Valentin isn’t homosexual. It shows their tight bond with each
Novelist Manuel Puig
“Homosexuality is not something we should judge. More importantly: the act doesn’t make you homosexual.”
Readers of novelist Manuel Puig will never forget the novels of the Argentine man. Using innovative narrative techniques, dark comedy and particularly film, Manuel Puig has been a very successful writer. Born in 1932 in General Villegas, a small town on the Argentine pampas, Puig began studying English at the age of ten, to get a better understanding in American movies he watched daily with his mother. Puig's early passion for the movies is visible in his narrative style, which characterizes itself on dialogue, and in the lives of his characters, where the glamorous and idealized world of films serves as a counterpoint to their own disappointments. In his career, Puig wrote various novels: Heartbreak Tango (1969); The Buenos Aires Affair (1973); The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976); Pubis Angelical(1979); Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages (1980); Blood of Requited Love(1982). On this day, 1989 March 2, we decided to meet Manuel Puig and ask several questions about his life.
We’ve heard some rumours …show more content…
My revisions for the novel were minimal as I wrote it with the greatest ease. Being homosexual has been very difficult to cope with, especially in my younger ages. I know I’m not the only one having difficulties and therefore I decided to write about it. Especially in the past, it was very difficult to be homosexual in Argentina. That’s what my book also expresses. Homosexuality is not something we should judge. More importantly: the act doesn’t make you homosexual. Friendship is something more powerful: an allegory we all should not forget. As for in the novel, the two main characters, Molina and Valentin, become very close and even have sexual intercourse, but Valentin isn’t homosexual. It shows their tight bond with each