Manuel Puig | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 13 pages of analysis & critique of Manuel Puig.

Manuel Puig | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 13 pages of analysis & critique of Manuel Puig.
This section contains 3,568 words
(approx. 12 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Leonard A. Cheever

SOURCE: “Manuel Puig's Pubis Angelical: The Characters' Dreams or the Reader's Fantasy?” in Literature and Psychology, Vol. 38, Nos. 1 and 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 105-114.

In the following essay, Cheever analyzes how the reader is to interpret the place of dreams in Puig's Pubis Angelical, concluding that “we may either force Puig's text to tell us that beautiful things do not exist, or we may allow it to show us that they do.”

“Desde La traición de Rita Hayworth hasta Pubis angelical el factor de la contradicción—implicita of explícita—ha sido uno do los recursos más importantes para configurar la estructura profunda del texto. … Los alcances de tales contradicciones deben ser determinados por el lector, sin estar nunca explícitos en el discurso—como es requisito ineludible en Puig. … El objetivo último de dichas contradicciones no es, como pudiera suponerse, la ambigüedad del mundo representado...

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This section contains 3,568 words
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Buy the Critical Essay by Leonard A. Cheever
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