Manuel Puig (1932–1990)
Author of Kiss of the Spider Woman
About the Author
Author Manuel Puig was born in General Villegas, Argentina on December 28, 1932. Betrayed by Rita Hayworth (1968) is an innovative novel narrating through a variety of techniques the story of a young Argentine boy who lives vicariously through the movies. Puig uses the phenomenon of compulsive show more movie-going as a symbol for alienation and escape from reality. Heartbreak Tango (1969) evokes the spiritual emptiness of the Argentine provincial life in the 1930s and the vulgarity of popular music and the soap opera. His best known work, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1979), was adapted as a film in 1985 and as a Broadway musical in 1993. He died of a heart attack on July 22, 1990. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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My Deep Dark Pain Is Love: A Collection of Latin American Gay Fiction (1983) — Contributor — 68 copies
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- Canonical name
- Puig, Manuel
- Legal name
- Puig Delledonne, Juan Manuel
- Birthdate
- 1932-12-28
- Date of death
- 1990-07-22
- Burial location
- Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Cementerio de la Plata, Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina - Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Birthplace
- General Villegas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Place of death
- Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
- Cause of death
- heart attack
- Places of residence
- General Villegas, Buenos Aires, Argentina (birth)
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico (death)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Universidad de Buenos Aires (Architecture)
- Occupations
- film archivist
editor
novelist
dishwasher
scriptwriter - Relationships
- Delledonne, María Elena (mother)
Puig, Baldomero (father)
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