Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
- Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
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name = Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
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author = Manuel Puig
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country = Argentina
language = Spanish
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genre = Novel
publisher = Random House
release_date = 1980
english_release_date = June 1983
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 232 pp (paperback edition)
isbn = ISBN 978-0816635368 (paperback edition)
preceded_by = Pubis Angelical
followed_by = Blood of Requited Love
"Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages" (Spanish: "Maldición eterna a quien lea estas páginas") is a 1980 novel by Argentinian novelist Manuel Puig. As in other works by Puig, the story is formally experimental, consisting of mostly unattributed dialogue, digressing into stories within stories. It also bears many of Puig favorite motifs, including sexuality and leftist revolutionary politics.
Plot introduction
The novel is set in Greenwich Village, near Washington Square. Larry, a poor and otherwise-unemployed former college student, accepts a part-time job taking care of 74-year old Mr. Ramirez. Mr. Ramirez is an Argentinian ex-patriate who has apparently lost his memory, as well as his understanding of basic concepts such as love and sexual arousal. Though the two men are ostensibly strangers, their conversations reveal that they may somehow have intimate knowledge of each other's pasts. Abruptly and without clear explanation, dialogue often digresses into elaborate melodramatic reenactments of events that may or may not have happened to the two men.
1980 – ; English translation: Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages (1982)
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