Manuel Puig - Kiss of the Spider Woman (pdf)

Manuel Puig (Thomas Colchie, trans.) - Kiss of the Spider Woman (Vintage, 1980). 281 pages.

New scan. Searchable pdf (clearscan) with contents in bookmarks, accurate pagination and metadata, etc.


The story of a fierce revolutionary and a gay window dresser imprisoned together in an oppressive Latin American country. Adapted into a wonderful film in 1985.


description:

Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film 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.

Review

"Dazzling...a triumph" Observer

"Puig dazzles one with sheer technical ability" Newsday

"In exceptional form, Puig weaves his own shimmering web around a classic theme" Newsweek

"Richly ambivalent and mysterious" Washington Post



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