"Sin yo haberlo buscado": Manuel Puig y el Teatro

Abstract

The theater, a space where genres, formats and poetics intersect, is a remnant that seems to have always been in Puig's writing, and comes on stage as a corporeal sign of exile. We will read the didascalias in scripts and dramatic texts as a trace that condenses those displacements between cinema, theater and literatura; juncture that exposes the imminence of loss and transformation, as well as the intersection of materialities, expressive means and modes of representation, that run through Puig's entire production: a translation-transposition problem inscribed in a voice that rejoices in simultaneously its consistency and its fall.