was born in a village on the plain where life was very hard, very hard to say almost Far-west. The prestige of force. Machismo was not questioned at all. The authority had the highest reputation possible. Practiced a Catholicism of convenience. Those were the coordinates. The weakness, tenderness, had no prestige. A world that I rejected. In this village there was a way to escape reality: the movies.
A single room which was each day a different movie, I was with mom at least four times a week. I gradually changed the terms: what was reality became a Z-movie in which I had gotten by mistake. The films were really, coming from the Hollywood blockbusters. It was such a choice, unconscious. This, after 5 years. I went to the movies, and accommodated my life because the truth was what happened in the movies, not what happened in a western town that was the "Republic." I lived in town and was supposed to Buenos Aires Metro. Leaving the town I was going to enter the world you saw in the cinema where the sensitivity triumphed embodied in, for example, Norma Shearer. In the films are rewarded all that was sensitive ... Was time to go to Buenos Aires when he finished primary school, because that town had no high school. I went to Buenos Aires expecting to find that world of film. Not find it.
From the interview of Saul Sosnowski
My personal relations with objects, toys and entertainment gadgets, clothes and costumes ... and even treasures to carry and store, imposed devotional medals or commemorative rings were always valued above all for employment opportunities in the representation in the constant exercise of imitating models and approach to adults or people associated with me them. Things dual membership, these temporary gifts that make children because they do not know where to get and that sooner or later return to the usual circuit of adults were especially me significant. (...)
A single room which was each day a different movie, I was with mom at least four times a week. I gradually changed the terms: what was reality became a Z-movie in which I had gotten by mistake. The films were really, coming from the Hollywood blockbusters. It was such a choice, unconscious. This, after 5 years. I went to the movies, and accommodated my life because the truth was what happened in the movies, not what happened in a western town that was the "Republic." I lived in town and was supposed to Buenos Aires Metro. Leaving the town I was going to enter the world you saw in the cinema where the sensitivity triumphed embodied in, for example, Norma Shearer. In the films are rewarded all that was sensitive ... Was time to go to Buenos Aires when he finished primary school, because that town had no high school. I went to Buenos Aires expecting to find that world of film. Not find it.
From the interview of Saul Sosnowski
My personal relations with objects, toys and entertainment gadgets, clothes and costumes ... and even treasures to carry and store, imposed devotional medals or commemorative rings were always valued above all for employment opportunities in the representation in the constant exercise of imitating models and approach to adults or people associated with me them. Things dual membership, these temporary gifts that make children because they do not know where to get and that sooner or later return to the usual circuit of adults were especially me significant. (...)
In elementary school I discovered the first outbreaks of violence that never stopped hating. This systematic humiliation of all that was weak or sensitive, that united in a single word groups, grades, schools whole, against the overweight or stunted, the ponies or sensitive, always terrified me. Somehow, that image is identified to me with an entire generation to which I could never forgive his inability to understand what you do not like him.
. Manuel Puig, Argentina. From the book "Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman" by Suzanne Jill Levine. Seix Barral, 2002.
There was a whole generation of children brought up to presidents. I think it was a phenomenon that came from the recent immigration. Suddenly, these children were European peasants doctors, and if the son had been a doctor's grandson had become president. Were given by leaps and bounds, and had an ambition, there were no limits. Was not to satisfaction, but to meet a kind of geometric progression. Note that, during World War II, Argentina was for us the most desirable in the world. We were privileged, we had peace, we progress ... And there was no limit to ambition. Our parents watched their children waiting did not know why, because he could not stop the momentum. If my grandfather was a grocer and my mother had been chemistry, I then had to be what!
In an interview with Rosa Montero.
Excerpt from depth interviews, English Television.
Manuel Puig. Argentina. 1932-1990.
There was a whole generation of children brought up to presidents. I think it was a phenomenon that came from the recent immigration. Suddenly, these children were European peasants doctors, and if the son had been a doctor's grandson had become president. Were given by leaps and bounds, and had an ambition, there were no limits. Was not to satisfaction, but to meet a kind of geometric progression. Note that, during World War II, Argentina was for us the most desirable in the world. We were privileged, we had peace, we progress ... And there was no limit to ambition. Our parents watched their children waiting did not know why, because he could not stop the momentum. If my grandfather was a grocer and my mother had been chemistry, I then had to be what!
In an interview with Rosa Montero.
Excerpt from depth interviews, English Television.
Manuel Puig. Argentina. 1932-1990.
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