Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig
Manuel Puigwas an Argentine author...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 December 1932
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!
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.