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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 · 33,326 ratings · 3,062 reviews · 53 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Kiss of the Spider Woman
4.02 avg rating — 20,636 ratings — published 1976 — 184 editions
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Boquitas pintadas
3.89 avg rating — 7,180 ratings — published 1969 — 114 editions
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Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
3.64 avg rating — 1,259 ratings — published 1968 — 74 editions
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Cae la noche tropical
3.97 avg rating — 954 ratings — published 1988 — 32 editions
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The Buenos Aires Affair
3.71 avg rating — 987 ratings — published 1973 — 53 editions
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Pubis angelical
3.77 avg rating — 800 ratings — published 1979 — 48 editions
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Eternal Curse on the Reader...
3.50 avg rating — 668 ratings — published 1980 — 33 editions
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Sangre de amor correspondido
3.35 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 1982 — 31 editions
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Kiss of the Spider Woman an...
4.06 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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Los ojos de Greta Garbo
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3.37 avg rating — 95 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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Polls

September 2023 New School Classics Poll

A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr, 1980, 160 pages
 
  54 votes, 22.0%

 
  54 votes, 22.0%


The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse, 1943, 558 pages
 
  34 votes, 13.8%

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, 1955, 200 pages
 
  33 votes, 13.4%

 
  33 votes, 13.4%

 
  25 votes, 10.2%

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley, 1953, 326 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.3%

246 total votes
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