The Buenos Aires Affair
by Manuel Puig
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First chapter online at http://www.literatura.org/Puig/BsAs_affair.html
O romance é um fascinante e idiossincrático thriller que narra a estranha relação entre a escultora Gladys Habe D’Onofrio e o crítico de arte Leopoldo Druscovich. Ela perdeu um olho durante uma tentativa de estupro e vive um dia-a-dia solitário regado por fantasias eróticas; ele é um homem com impressionantes dotes sexuais e um passado marcado pelo sangue. Gladys constantemente pensa em cometer suicídio através de uma mistura de barbitúricos com álcool, enquanto Leopoldo passa os dias tentando domar os seus impulsos assassinos. São os opostos: ela é a vítima e ele é o criminoso, mas ambos estão física e psicologicamente conectados desde o nascimento e até a morte.
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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 movie-going as a symbol for alienation and escape from show more 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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- The Buenos Aires Affair.
- Original publication date
- 1973-04-26
- Original language*
- Spanish
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