by Manuel Puig · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432241017
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Eternal curse to whoever reads these pages leads to unexpected consequences in Manuel Puig's narrative writing. The novel narrates the harsh and destructive encounter of two solitudes in New York: a sick Argentine and his American caretaker, both marked by the absence of the woman they await, rejected, or lost forever. The difficulty in establishing mutual trust and necessary affection is the guiding theme. In this confrontation, each of them will reveal to the other and to themselves unexpected aspects of their personalities. The mastery with which Puig uses American daily life to penetrate the human soul, especially from dialogues taken from real conversations in which silences play as important a role as the word, is what most attracts and subjugates these pages.
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author and LGBTQ activist. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintadas, and El beso de la mujer araña which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
