Description
In Buenos Aires, Gladys and Leopoldo—ordinary citizens whose lives seem governed by routine, desire, and secrecy—are drawn into a tense, escalating entanglement that gradually reveals a darker undercurrent beneath the city’s public face. Spanning decades from the 1930s to the late 1960s, the novel unfolds like a detective story built from fragments: one-sided dialogues, imagined interviews, and shifting perspectives that invite the reader to piece together what really happened. Manuel Puig’s distinctive, film-inflected style turns private longing into a lens for examining official lies, family secrets, and the ways totalitarian power can invade both bodies and social life. Blending seduction, psychoanalysis, and the shadow of fascism, this is a formally daring work that transforms the act of “solving” a crime into an unsettling meditation on complicity and truth.
Available Editions
paperback
Editorial Seix Barral
Published Jan 1, 1986
228 pages
ISBN: 9788432230318
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Details
First Published
1973
Language
eng
Translation
From: spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Buenos Aires Affair by Manuel Puig.