The Buenos Aires Affair

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The Buenos Aires Affair is a 1973 experimental crime and psychological novel by Argentine writer Manuel Puig that blends pop culture, psychoanalysis, and political undercurrents in a fragmented narrative set in Buenos Aires.

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instanceOf crime novel
experimental literature work
novel
psychological novel
author Manuel Puig NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Argentina NERFINISHED
followedBy Kiss of the Spider Woman NERFINISHED
genre crime fiction
experimental fiction
postmodern fiction
psychological fiction
hasForm chaptered novel
hasMainCharacter Gladys Hebe D’Onofrio NERFINISHED
Leopoldo Druscovich NERFINISHED
hasStructure inclusion of pseudo-documentary materials
nonlinear narrative
shifts in point of view
hasTheme alienation
gender roles
mass culture influence
obsession
political tension in Argentina
power relations
psychological trauma
repression
sexuality
violence
hasTitleInOriginalLanguage El beso de la mujer araña (incorrect)
languageStyle cinematic
intertextual
literaryMovement Latin American Boom (late phase) NERFINISHED
Latin American postmodernism
narrativeForm fragmented narrative
notableFeature includes political allusions to Argentina in the early 1970s
incorporates psychoanalytic case-history style elements
mixes popular culture with high literature
originalLanguage Spanish
partOfBibliographyOf Manuel Puig NERFINISHED
placeOfPublication Buenos Aires NERFINISHED
precededBy Heartbreak Tango NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1973
settingLocation Buenos Aires NERFINISHED
timePeriodOfSetting 20th century
usesElement political undercurrents
pop culture references
psychoanalytic themes

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Manuel Puig notableWork The Buenos Aires Affair