Boquitas Pintadas, de Manuel Puig: um romance experimental

The writing procedures that give an experimental configuration to the novel Boquitas pintadas by the Argentinean writer Manuel Puig are analyzed. The narrative associates a structural opening and a critical consciousness in its literary elaboration. Puig develops a narrative perspective marked by formal hybridization that maintains a dialogue with symbolic products and codes from mass culture without quitting critic work and aesthetic consciousness.