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Puig Manuel: Izdaja Rite Hejvort

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  • Author: Puig Manuel
  • Publisher: Dereta
  • Availability: Available
  • Condition: Nova knjiga
  • Code: 52242

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Puig Manuel

Summary

Manuel Puig: The Betrayal of Rita Hayworth

The Betrayal of Rita Hayworth (1968), Puig's first novel, is a kind of autobiographical look at his childhood. The main character is fifteen-year-old Toto from a provincial town where not much interesting is happening. The boy relieves his boredom by fantasizing about the lives of stars from Hollywood movies that he passionately watches with his mother in the cinema, and often intertwines their destinies with the destinies of the locals whose secrets he knows very well. Thus, a unique hybrid world of fictitious movie heroes, famous Hollywood personalities and real people from Toto's environment is created before the reader.

The unusual structure of this novel implies fresh and exciting narrative processes, such as changing narrator
perspectives, stream of consciousness, epistolary explanations, internal monologues (but also dialogues), telephone conversations, and even homework. Dark, original humor and frequent references to popular culture, especially film, make Puig's style bravura, and his work unique in postmodern literature of the second half of the 20th century.

Translation from Spanish: Bojana Kovačević Petrović

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"Puig's work is one of the most original in the second half of the 20th century." - Mario Vargas Llosa

"A brilliant Argentine writer, heavily influenced by Faulkner and Joyce, but endowed with an impressive, original talent for comedy... Only a writer of extraordinary imagination can create stream-of-consciousness novels." It's almost perfectly done here. For everyone." ‒ Library Magazine

"A triumph...Rita Hayworth's Betrayal is tear-jerkingly funny...A stunning and wholly original debut from Mr. Puig, who clearly loves us madly."‒ Alexander Coleman, New York Times Book Review

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Additional information

  • Author: Puig Manuel
  • Publisher: Dereta
  • Year of publication:2019
  • Place of publication:Beograd
  • Pages:314
  • Dimensions:14x21 cm
  • Script:Latinica
  • Condition:Nova knjiga
  • Binding:Tvrdi

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