The nation’s steady economic decline toppled regime after regime-Argentina had 13 different governments between 19-spawning violence in the streets and halls of power. Society became polarized between the wealthy elite, whose assets were safely in foreign banks, and an increasingly impoverished mafority. It had slipped to third place behind Brazil and Mexico by the 1970s, and was fighting massive inflation.

Events in History at the Time of the Novel The decline of Argentina: an overviewĪfter World War II Argentina struggled to regain its economic position as the most productive Latin American nation. During the 1970s and 1980s Puig continued to write novels while living in Mexico, New York, and Brazil he died July 22, 1990, in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Betrayal was followed by Heartbreak Tango, The Buenos Aires Affair, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, the novel that established him as a major Latin American writer. In 1968 he published his first novel, The Betrayal of Rita Hayworth, which launched him onto the international literary scene. He moved back to Argentina in 1967 and turned some of these screenwriting attempts into his initial pieces of literary fiction.

Discovering that he was not temperamentally suited for the occupation, Puig began to write film scripts while dividing his time between Europe and New York. Twenty years later, after attending the school of architecture at the University of Buenos Aires, Puig was awarded a scholarship to study filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.

A Novel Set in an Argentine Prison in 1975 published in Spanish (as El beso de la mujer araña) in 1976, in English in Î97B,Ī gay male and a political revolutionary become friends while sharing an Argentine prison cell during a period of domestic military violence.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novelīorn December 28, 1932, in General Villegas, a town in the province of Buenos Aires, Manuel Puig Delledonne developed an early love of storytelling when his mother began taking him to the movies at the age of four.

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