Boquitas pintadas, a Novel to Make. First Notes and Drafts of a Creative Project in Progress

Abstract

This article proposes to study the pre-textual germinal documents and those that allow us to identify the most representative work settings of the production process of the novel Boquitas pintadasby the Argentinian writer Manuel Puig. These materials explain unfinished decisions for formalizing and sharping a reasoned plan of production, as opposed to an improvised writing. They also allow identifying certain habits in the literary production mode initiated in this plan and sustained in the rest of the author's narrative production. The article also proposes focusing on two central aspects which Puig attends from the beginning of his planning: the articulation between the plot and the complex structure of the novel.