At one time critics tried to classify generationally the fiction writers who came to represent the extraordinary production and reception of the "new" narrative, and Puig was initially situated with the younger writers who emerged in the late 1960s, including Reinaldo Arenas, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Severo Sarduy. However, today one is more likely to read the work of Puig and others, such as Arenas, Cabrera Infante, Sarduy, Julio Cortázar, José Donoso, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa, not as representative of radically different phases but rather as a continuum of contemporary Latin American narrative.
Though Puig, like many other prominent writers, had lived outside Latin America for some time, and his writing deals with issues in contemporary culture and society that cross national boundaries, his work is also firmly rooted in the realities of his own country (Argentina) and Latin America as a whole. He was born on 28 December 1932 in General Villegas, where he spent his formative years with his family. His father, Baldomero Puig, was a businessman, and his mother, María Elena Delledonne de Puig, was a chemist.
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