Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions - Hardcover

Levine, Suzanne Jill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374281904 ISBN 13: 9780374281908

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000

Synopsis

A biography of the flamboyant and often persecuted author of Kiss of the Spider Woman traces the remarkable life and career of Manuel Puig, an Argentinian banned by the Peronists and shunned by the left for his multi-layered, often erotic novels.

About this title

Review:

"Puig was a man of the movies, or perhaps of visual images and fantasy, who found himself shipwrecked in literature almost by default." - Mario Vargas Llosa, New York Times Book Review "This excellent biography is not only Levine's best work but also Puig's lasting triumph." - G. Cabrera Infante, Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Suzanne Jill Levine is professor of Latin American literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara and a noted translator of contemporary Latin American literature. She is the author of several books, including The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0374281904
• ISBN 13: 9780374281908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448