Puig, Manuel (Vol. 3) - Puig, Manuel 1932–
Puig, Manuel 1932–
Puig is an Argentinian novelist best known for Heartbreak Tango. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 45-48.)
At first glance Puig seems to be fighting the current of magic that runs like an Amazon through the great South American writers of fiction, Borges, Marquez; yet finally what do his novels in their patient accretion of middle-class and lower-middle-class trivia cry out from under their heavy load of realistic detail but magic, give us magic, the cheapest matinee idol movies will do, only touch our lives with romance, an hour of it, two, on the radio, in the cinema, give us better dreams than our lives do or we die. It is his mastery of plot, counterplot, the characters' scheming, his own, that lifts Puig into the circle of his peers. Rather than submit to the restrictions of third-person narrative and a realistic world, that deadly formula, Puig leaps about from one perspective to another…. Each serves as...
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