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Manuel Puig

    December 28, 1932 – July 22, 1990

    Manuel Puig was an Argentine author whose work delves into the realm of popular culture and its impact on individual lives. His novels frequently explore themes of love, desire, and the search for identity, employing a unique blend of high and low culture. Puig's distinctive style, characterized by its use of dialogue and incorporation of elements from film and pop songs, subverts traditional narrative forms. His writing examines the complexities of human relationships and the illusions we construct.

    Manuel Puig
    Der schönste Tango der Welt
    Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
    Pubis Angelical
    Kiss of the Spider Woman
    Blood of Requited Love
    Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
    • When Ramirez, an Argentinian exile and invalid in his seventies, who is confined to a wheelchair and unable to feel emotions, hires Larry, a young, down-on-his-luck American, a curious, multi-layered relationship develops

      Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
    • This is a new novel by Puig, an Argentine novelist who is also author of "Betrayed by Rita Hayworth", "The Buenos Aires Affair" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman".

      Blood of Requited Love
    • Kiss of the Spider Woman

      • 281 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.9(412)Add rating

      Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the films he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before.

      Kiss of the Spider Woman
    • A brilliant tour-de-force about paranoia and sexual obsession, about the conscious and unconscious lives of a contemporary woman, from the acclaimed author of Kiss of the Spiderwoman.

      Pubis Angelical
    • Si la chica-gata es "La mujer pantera", en la primera película que en la novela le cuenta Molina a Valentín, la mujer-araña es el propio Molinita, el homosexual que quiere ser mujer. En sus relatos, con nocturnidad y algo de alevosía, Molina va sacando al radical y recalcitrante revolucionario Valentín de su abstracción. Para envolverle en la fantasía, en la ilusión, en el refugio que para un ser tan basureado como él es su único escape de la realidad. Pero si Molina es un marginado, también lo es Valentín. Dos seres tan diametralmente diversos de entrada, en un proceso sutil y casi ritual, van evolucionando de tal modo que cada uno acaba asumiendo la personalidad opuesta (...) "La mujer araña", madre, mujer, amante, la que uno quiso ser y el otro quiso tener, acogerá a los dos.

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