1. Buenos Aires Affair, the (Spanish
Edition) by Manuel Puig
A Classic
The Buenos Aires Affair is a novel composed as a sort of collage. Sources
for the collage: debris that collects on the beach and is scavenged for
reuse, pre-50's film and its divas, hardboiled detective fiction and the
cartoonish fringe of the international art world. The novel is an experiment
of form, and the forms Puig picks out - one-sided dialogue and imaginary
interviews to name two - require some serious engagement to pull the
story out of the document. BUT, that is part of the mystery being set up by
the book itself, the story of which is a kind of murder mystery in reverse, in
which we learn of a crime, and then we excavate the people involved and
how they came to be captor and captee.
Lots of dirty glamour to be reveled in, and lots of fun to be had with
references to the femme fatales Puig adored. This is a wonderful book for
film lovers, not only for content, but for seeing how texture and fragments
piece together. Puig, who was also trained in screenwriting and briefly
directed, hoped at some point to work in film, and this shows that aspect of
his intuition at work. For those with some patience, a love for the tawdry
and a seedy appetite, Puig will take you spelunking.
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