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About Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig grew up in the small pampa town of General Villegas, where the Hollywood movies in the local cinema were about the only way of escaping the utterly dull and oppressive way of life. Puig’s enormous passion for the movies moved him to start a professional career in the film industry. In the 1950s he studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, became an assistant director and began to write film scripts. Realizing that none of these activities gave him the satisfaction and results he had expected, he gave up and tried his luck in literature. ‘The stories I wanted to tell’, Puig would recall, ‘required the analytical possibilities of literature, not the synthetic ones of the cinema’. --(Excerpt from Steenmeijer, Maarten. "Puig, Manuel." Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003, edited by Daniel Balderston, and Mike González, Routledge, 1st edition, 2004.)
Video biography (Spanish)
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