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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

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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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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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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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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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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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