Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig
Manuel Puigwas an Argentine author...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 December 1932
literature influence great-literary
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
believe successful people
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
realism
I only understand realism.
sellers translations best-sellers
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
tasks language tension
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
trying use literature
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
thinking intuition intellectual
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
form should
As a rule, one should never place form over content.
book literature waste
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
writing order imagination
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
objectivity cameras literature
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
movie stories actors
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
party views hands
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
ghouls film exploration
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.