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The Buenos Aires Affair
Manuel Puig s masterful and ironic detective novel concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth all combining to make a powerful portrait of two decidedly unglamorous lives: Gladys Hebe D Onofrio, a lonely 35-year-old sculptor, tormented by her fantasies and perpe...more
Paperback, 219 pages
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by Dalkey Archive Press
(first published 1973)
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I was interested in reading the novels of Mauel Puig after learning Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai used some of them for inspiration for his films. The first one I read was Heartbreak Tango, which was inspiration for Wong's Days of Being Wild, and was experimental in form. This novel, The Buenos Aires Affair, is the story of an unhealthy love affair between an artist, Gladys D'Onofrio and an art critic Leo Druscovich in Argentina. This destructive relationship was part of the inspiration for Wo...more
Apenas lo compré en una segunda en Puebla y tengo ciertas expectativas que espero cumpla... por lo pronto la edición es tan vintage que seguro lucirá bien en cualquier librero. ¿Quién dijo que la literatura no entra por la vista?
Una reivindicación de lo marginal en la literatura, que ahora podría parecer un lugar común de mucha literatura contemporánea, pero para su época implica todo un cambio de pensamiento.
Una parte de la nueva novela latinoamericana que no se abre a ser leída ante el resto del mundo sino una que se abre a recibir objetos culturales del mundo, el cine, la publicidad, la música...
Una parte de la nueva novela latinoamericana que no se abre a ser leída ante el resto del mundo sino una que se abre a recibir objetos culturales del mundo, el cine, la publicidad, la música...
i read this pre-dalkey, but a fantastic detective novel for the dalkey archive set. xxx in places. puig is of "kiss of the spider woman" fame.
The underlying concept was interesting but disturbing. However, the style of narrative was too disjointed for my liking.
I wrote the introduction to this edition. Great book!
The Buenos Aires affair by Manuel Puig (1973)
Martin at Dalkey Archive for review
First read this almost a decade ago, but in the meantime forgot just how awesome it really is. It's like a detective novel told through the forms of Joyce's Ulysses. Despite the fairly disturbing story at the center of this, it's a pretty fun, pretty interesting book. I want to write more, but I don't have the book here with me . . . One of Puig's best. (Along with Heartbreak Tango, which I'll be rereading in the very near future.)
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Manuel Puig (born Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne) was an Argentinian author. Among his best known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth (1968) (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth), Boquitas pintadas (1969) (Heartbreak Tango), and El beso de la mujer araña (1976) (Kiss of the Spider Woman), which was made into a film by the Argentine-Brazilian Director, Héctor Babenco and in 1993 into a Broadway musical.
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