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| Original Title: | El beso de la mujer araña |
| ISBN: | 0679724494 (ISBN13: 9780679724490) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Valentín Arregui Paz, Luis Molina |
| Setting: | Argentina Buenos Aires(Argentina) |
Manuel Puig
Paperback | Pages: 281 pages Rating: 3.98 | 12174 Users | 775 Reviews
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| Title | : | Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| Author | : | Manuel Puig |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 281 pages |
| Published | : | April 3rd 1991 by Vintage (first published 1976) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. LGBT. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Cultural. Latin American |
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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.Rating Of Books Kiss of the Spider Woman
Ratings: 3.98 From 12174 Users | 775 ReviewsJudgment Of Books Kiss of the Spider Woman
oh wow this book is finished and i already miss the characters. read for my 20th century queer project, for the year 1976 (as a bonus!). this is probably one of my favourite books of this project so far. two prisoners in a cell together. they pass the time by one sharing plots to films theyve seen. told in such an unique format (mostly dialogue and film scripts and footnotes that are both real and imagined). this was so rewarding to read. this book was so clever, but so easy to read. i felt like'This dream is short, but this dream is happy"In Cell 7, political prisoner Valentin passes the time by listening to his gay cell mate Molina's remembrances of his favourite films. But there are sinister forces at work and, just like the movies, nothing is as it seems. It helps that Molina's movies are some of my favourites. For a novel that takes place in one cramped room, and that consists virtually of a dialogue between two characters, it is absolutely rivetting. The friendship is palpable,
This book is a modern masterpiece, and something everyone should read once. Puig's tale of sex and love, passion, betrayal, politics and oppression, is woven together from dialogue, dreams and footnotes, movie summaries and sharp, cutting images rendered in elegant prose that mimics the morphine hallucinations and fantasies that provide escape from the tortured lives led by the protagonists. The main characters, Valentine and Molina, are slowly defined by their reactions to the world and each
This might be the oddest 1001 list book that I've read yet (although I've not yet read quite 400 so nearly 900 remain from the combined list). The book opens with a description of a scene - one person is describing a woman and how you notice something odd about her she's not a woman like all the othersWhat about her eyes a second disembodiment voice asks. And so the first voice describes them.Who is speaking? What are they speaking about? Is it a movie or a tv show? - I picture her
So funny thing, I actually started this book once when I was a kid, maybe about nine years old? Strangely, I thought I remembered what I'd read really clearly, but then on this rereading realized I'd read more of it before than I'd previously realized. Also funny, my passion for this book waned around the same place this time as when I was nine, though this time I stuck with it and followed through to the end.So this book takes place in a Latin American prison cell occupied by a political
Okay, so I just read an analysis that says that this is not a gay love story and it was smart and insightful etc but THIS SO IS A GAY LOVE STORY WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT ISN'T SHUT UPGod, I love books that have 39756 possible interpretations but they make my head hurt. This has layers and layers of meaning, and made me cry sooo... layers+causes tears=onion? Maybe I should make a new bookshelf for that...Anyway, it's fascinating how much you can learn about characters from dialogue alone, I'm
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