by Manuel Puig · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020092685
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«Le Baiser de la femme-araignée» is the novel by Argentine writer Manuel Puig, published by Points in paperback (268 pages, in French).
In Villa Devoto prison, Valentín, a political activist, and Molina, a homosexual who escapes through movies, share a cell. Molina tells him films he remembers, and those stories become their only escape. Between them, a complicity emerges that transforms their relationship and their idea of freedom.
The novel was originally published in 1976 as El beso de la mujer araña; this French edition, translated by Albert Bensoussan, appeared in 1986 in the Points Roman collection (no. 250).
For readers of Latin American fiction, LGBT fiction and stories with references to Hollywood movies.
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.
