Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig
Manuel Puigwas an Argentine author...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 December 1932
intellectual patterns subjectivity
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
rock-and-roll rocks literature
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
novel facade aesthetic
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
teaching people madness
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
dream reality thinking
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
reality hands fiction
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
writing reality novel
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
reality cinema modern
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
thinking feelings unhappy
The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
reading literature different
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
believe special taste
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
philosophical reading book
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
two space giving
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
matter way hollywood
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.