Betrayed By Rita Hayworth La Traicion De Rita Hayworth Second American Edition Manuel Puig by Manuel Puig, Suzanne Jill Levine (translation) 9781946022431, 9780394746593, 1946022438, 0394746597 instant download after payment.

Manuel Puig's "dazzling & wholly original debut" (New York Times Book Review) is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, & gossip—but most of all, to the movies.

When it appeared in 1968, Manuel Puig's debut—a portrait of the artist as a child in small-town Argentina—was hailed as revolutionary. Borrowing from the language of "true romance" & movie magazines, the techniques of American modernism, & Hollywood montage, Puig created an exuberant queer aesthetic while also celebrating the secret lives of women.

Hanging on the conversations of his mother, friends, & neighbors, Puig's stand-in Toto pieces together stories as full of passion, desire, & revenge as anything dreamed up for the silver screen. "A screamingly funny book, with scenes of such utter bathos that only a student of final reels such as Puig could possibly have verbally recreated for us" — Alexander Coleman

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Born in a small town in the Argentine pampas, MANUEL PUIG (1932–1990) read philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires before winning a scholarship to study film direction at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Exiled from Argentina, he settled in New York City in 1963. His 1976 novel Kiss of the Spider Woman was filmed in 1985 by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco, thereafter becoming a Broadway musical in 1993. Puig’s novels have been translated into fourteen languages.

SUZANNE JILL LEVINE is an acclaimed translator of Latin American literature. She is the author of Manuel Puig & the Spider Woman: His Life & Fictions and The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction. Her editions include the Penguin Paperback Classics series of Jorge Luis Borges’s essays & poetry.