Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig
Manuel Puigwas an Argentine author...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 December 1932
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.
humor thinking stories
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
long stories fantasy
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
needs stories felt
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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.