The Necessary Dream: A Study of the Novels of Manuel Puig - Hardcover

Bacarisse, Pamela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708310117 ISBN 13: 9780708310113

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 1988

Synopsis

Manuel Puig is one of the great talents of the so-called 'Post-Boom' in Latin-American literature. Well known for his Kiss of the Spider Woman (El beso de la mujer araņa), Puig has achieved success with his novels and plays both in academic circles and with the general public. This is the first book in English to present an interpretation of all seven of his novels. Each novel is discussed in a separate chapter and the homogeneity behind the varying formats is analysed to indicate common themes and attitudes, with recourse to fields such as psychology, feminism, Argentine politics, myth, Camp and popular culture.

The book is aimed at students and teachers of Latin-American literature. All quotations are given in Spanish with an English translation.

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About the Author

Since 1989, Pamela Bacarisse has been Professor of Spanish, Latin American, and peninsular Portuguese literature in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures of the University of Pittsburgh. In 1992, she was elected Chair of the Department. She is the author of Impossible Choices: Implications of the Cultural References in the Novels of Manuel Puig (1993).

Review

This book makes a significant contribution to the study of Puig's work...a clearly-written, briskly-argued book with notes that usefully refer to psychoanalytic theory and to the already considerable critical literature on Puig.>>>> (Times Higher Education Supplement)

Bacarisse is a careful, passionate reader....The Necessary Dream is one of the best, most comprehensive examinations dedicated to the Argentine, an illuminating analysis to be...greatly appreciated.>>>> (Review Of Contemporary Fiction)

Bacarisse is a careful, passionate reader....The Necessary Dream is one of the best, most comprehensive examinations dedicated to the Argentine, an illuminating analysis to be...greatly appreciated. (Review Of Contemporary Fiction)

This book makes a significant contribution to the study of Puig's work...a clearly-written, briskly-argued book with notes that usefully refer to psychoanalytic theory and to the already considerable critical literature on Puig. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0708310117
• ISBN 13: 9780708310113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 285