by Manuel Puig · Bibliotex · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481302561
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«El beso de la mujer araña» is the novel by Manuel Puig published by Bibliotex in hardcover, with 253 pages, in Spanish.
In an Argentine prison during the dictatorship, Molina, a homosexual accused of corrupting minors, and Valentín, a revolutionary activist, share a cell. To cope, Molina narrates movies about women who give themselves to the wrong man; the story becomes a space where both confront their ideas about gender, power, and fantasy.
The novel was originally published in 1976; the Bibliotex edition came out in 2001 as part of the Biblioteca El Mundo collection and includes a prologue by Pepe Martín.
It is a novel for readers of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, queer literature, and novels that experiment with cinematic language.
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author and LGBTQ activist. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintadas, and El beso de la mujer araña which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
