Manuel Puig

Kiss of the Spider Woman

"Un retrato descarnado de la sociedad argentina"--P. [4] of cover.

Boquitas pintadas

La obra m s conocida de Manuel Puig, "el brillantemente inventivo novelista argentino" (The New York Times), es ahora el tema de una premiada comedia musical. El beso de la mujer ara a es una elegante y fascinante novela sobre el amor y la victimizaci n. En una c rcel argentina, dos hombres comparten una celda: Molina, un dise ador de escaparates homosexual que es ego sta, auto-denigrante y al mismo tiempo encantador; y Valent n, un revolucionario articulado y ferozmente dogm tico obsesionado con la memoria de la mujer que abandon por la causa. Ambos son gradualmente transformados por su cautelosa pero creciente obsesi n de Molina con la fantas a y el romance del cine.

El beso de la mujer araña

Within reach of fame and love, with sexually crippled, emotionally uneasy Gladys, Leo Druscovich fears detection of the murder he committed twenty years earlier and, at the same time, compulsively seeks to punish himself

A Detective Novel

The Buenos Aires Affair

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women -- an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband's fairy-tale castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s convalescing in a hospital; and a futuristic cyborg sex slave, occupying an artificial landscape. In the haunting and mysterious language for which he is renowned, Puing explores the links between these women, as well as the links between genders and generations.

Pubis Angelical

In his first novel in English, Manuel Puig strikes a balance between irony and sympathy as he tells of the dealings of two men whose deceptive reminiscences recall those of the characters in his better-known Kiss of the Spider Woman. Larry, a down-out-out writer, is paid to push a wheelchair-bound Argentine political exile, Ramirez, around Greenwich Village. Through their journeys and their conversations about sex and politics, we witness the collision of two "solitary fantasy systems," revealing the men to be enmeshed in the lies that make up their bitter, shadowy symbiosis.

Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages

Cae la noche tropical

Una novela con historias pequenas, a la sombra de la pantalla plateada de una beldad mitica.

Manuel Puig

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