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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

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Manuel Puig
Age: 57 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 28
Died: 1990
Died: July 22
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Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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