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Biography / Latin American Literature / Film / Gay Interest

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Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman His Life and Fictions Suzanne Jill Levine "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 is the first biography, now available in paperback, of Manuel Puig (1932–1990), Argentinian author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and pioneer of high camp. Suzanne Jill Levine, his principal English translator, draws upon years of friendship as well as copious research and interviews. "This excellent biography is not only Levine's best work but also Puig's lasting triumph."—G. Cabrera Infante, Los Angeles Times "A splendid job of delineating Puig's cultural influences—from novelist Julian Green to Freud and Hitchcock—and his political revulsion against Hitler and Juan Perón."—Publishers Weekly Suzanne Jill Levine is a professor of Latin American literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara and a noted translator of contemporary Latin American literature. A PEN Award recipient, she is the author of several books, including The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction. For more information about the movie Kiss of the Spider Woman you can follow this link from the UW Press website to the movie website http://www.kissofthespiderwoman.com

October 2001 464 pp.   19 b/w photographs   6 x 9 ISBN 0-299-17574-X   Paper $19.95t To order, you can accumulate titles in the Shopping Cart by clicking on the bulleted lines below. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with MasterCard or Visa. Click here for further explanation of shopping cart feature. Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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