Manuel Puig — Argentinian Author born on December 28, 1932, died on July 22, 1990

Manuel Puig was an Argentine author... (wikipedia)

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!