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Manuel Puig


Born
in General Villegas, Argentina
December 28, 1932

Died
July 22, 1990

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Thomas Mann, André Gide, Aldous Huxley ...more


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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Average rating: 3.94 · 36,055 ratings · 3,537 reviews · 55 distinct works • Similar authors
Kiss of the Spider Woman
4.02 avg rating — 22,348 ratings — published 1976 — 199 editions
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Boquitas pintadas
3.89 avg rating — 7,732 ratings — published 1969 — 81 editions
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Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
3.64 avg rating — 1,331 ratings — published 1968 — 78 editions
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Cae la noche tropical
3.96 avg rating — 1,080 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions
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The Buenos Aires Affair
3.71 avg rating — 1,066 ratings — published 1973 — 14 editions
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Pubis angelical
3.77 avg rating — 865 ratings — published 1979 — 21 editions
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Eternal Curse on the Reader...
3.49 avg rating — 714 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions
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Sangre de amor correspondido
3.36 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 1982 — 32 editions
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Kiss of the Spider Woman an...
4.04 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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Los ojos de Greta Garbo
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3.40 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions
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“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays
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“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”
― Manuel Puig
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“Es que habría que saber aceptar las cosas como se dan, y apreciar lo bueno que te pase, aunque no dure. Porque nada es para siempre.”
― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
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