Comments on: Manuel Puig

By: Gerd Tepass

Gerd Tepass — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:04:42 +0000

Talking about Puig!!! Maybe the blogg http://www.manuelpuig.blogspot.com will interest you. I posted some interviews he made during 1968 and 1992. All these articles are part of the first multimedia-biography on CD-ROM about Puig: „Manuel Puig: Una aproximación biográfica”. Buenos Aires 2008. ISBN 978-987-05-4332-9. Distribution via: http://www.manuelpuig.com

mil greetings!!!

By: jim

jim — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:44:35 +0000

oso, did you go to brandeis or UCSD?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:56:13 +0000

JM, thanks for the comments about my blog. There are actually a number of porteño readers on this blog, much more than I expected at first.

By: JM

JM — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:52:57 +0000

Very nice blog. I wonder how many other portenos read it (cause is typical from here to be caring too much about foreign opinions).

By: Puig on Conversational Reading » Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance

Puig on Conversational Reading » Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:33:08 +0000

[...] If you’re not familiar with Puig, then you may want to browse the overview of Puig I wrote back in December. [...]

By: oso

oso — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:44:51 +0000

I liked them too. In my mind they were a print hack to add a “metalayer” of info to the text – the same thing bloggers do when they link to Wikipedia articles or other pages.

I think Puig woulda been one hell of a blogger.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:54:38 +0000

I like the footnotes but that’s partly the librarian in me, always fascinated with footnotes, be they real or fictional. From a literary perspective, Puig’s use of footnotes reminds me not just of Borges but also contemporary new media works that are exploring non-traditional narrative structures.

That’s an interesting tidbit about Marcuse.

By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Argentina: Novelist Manuel Puig

Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Argentina: Novelist Manuel Puig — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:20:33 +0000

[...] Jeff Barry celebrates what would have been Argentinean novelist, Manuel Puig’s 73rd birthday by picking up his most well-known novel, The Kiss of the Spider Woman. Barry also notes that Puig’s translator, Suzanne Jill Levine is one of the best and that Puig himself wrote a novel in English which had to then be translated back Spanish [...]

By: oso

oso — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:12:06 +0000

How do you feel about the footnotes in Kiss of the Spider Woman? I read it for a literature class back in college … something I used to hate doing because the professors always managed to butcher the meaning of the book for me, but with Puig’s work and all of his Hollywood B-movie allusions, I was really thankful for the help. And in the end, it became one of my favorite books.

As a side note, Herbert Marcuse, who pops up in the footnotes from time to time, used to lecture in the same hall where I was reading Puig … it reminded me that the world is more interconnected than we often realize.