Betrayed By Rita Hayworth | Literary Precedents
Whenever Puig is asked about literary influences, he denies that he comes from any literary tradition, insists that he does not read much fiction, admits to having casually leafed through Ulysses (1922), and claims that the greatest influence on his work was an extra literary one: the cinema. However, his use of cinematic techniques together with other aspects of his style make his work most closely resemble the French new novel. The new novelists, such as Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes, imitate the cinema by presenting sharp visual images and by recreating "things" in all...
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