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Manuel Puig

writer, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, activist, prose writer, film screenwriter

1932 – 1990

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.

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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Manuel Puig

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Manuel Puig

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Manuel Puig

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Manuel Puig

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

Manuel Puig