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Pubis angelical by Manuel Puig

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Name: Manuel Puig
Birth Date: 28 December 1932
Death Date: 22 July 1990

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Biography of Manuel Puig
6561 words, approx. 21.9 pages
Though Manuel Puig has most recently come to the attention of the general public through the successful 1985 filming of his novel El beso de la, mujer arana (1976; translated as Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1979), he has been a well-known figure in Latin-Am...
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Biography of Manuel Puig
5714 words, approx. 19 pages
Though Manuel Puig has most recently come to the attention of the general public through the successful 1985 filming of his novel El beso de la mujer araña (1976; translated as Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1979), he has been a well-known figure in La...


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Pubis angelical Information
183 words, approx. 1 pages
Pubis Angelical is a 1979 novel by acclaimed Argentine novelist Manuel Puig. It is perhaps Puig's work most influenced by pop culture. This can be seen in the montage imitating narrative technique, soap opera and science fiction elements. Also like...


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The Nation
Pubis angelical. (book reviews)
04/18/1987: 982 words, approx. 3 pages
PUBIS ANGELICAL First published in 1979, ManuelPuig's Pubis Angelical is an altogether bleaker novel than his better-known Kiss of the Spider Woman. Like this earlier novel, however, it is set in 1975 and alludes indirectly to the escalating violence of Isabel Peron's...
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CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
'Pubis Angelical': where Puig meets Lacan. (novelist Manuel Puig, critic Jacques Lacan)(Comparative Metafiction)
09/22/1997: 8,731 words, approx. 29 pages
Manuel Puig's 'Pubis Angelical' brings together his interests in writing and psychoanalysis. Puig used the criticism of Jacques Lacan to analyze an individual's desire and subjectivity, and to portray the power of the unconscious to challenge the rules arbitrarily imposed by social order. Puig's...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth B. Marshall
251 words, approx. 1 pages
[Pubis Angelical] is a collage of the human, subhuman, and superhuman, through which characters pass without achieving full dimension. During the course of the book Puig manages to set before the reader all the dubious enrichments of the age: computers, robots, ESP, occult prophecies, assassinations, terrorism, espionage, drugs, prostitution, movie-making, munitions-making, and feminism versus the myth of male superiority. His people are a mixed lot, and most of them come to rather unpleasant ends. Two inte...


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