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| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Kiss of the Spider Woman Manuel Puig, 2010-09-01 Kiss of the Spider Woman is a graceful, intensely compelling novel about love and victimization. In an Argentine prison, two men share a cell: Molina, a gay window dresser who is self-centered, self-denigrating, yet charming as well; and Valentin, an articulate, fiercely dogmatic revolutionary haunted by memories of a woman he left for the cause. Both are gradually transformed by their guarded but growing friendship and by Molina’s obsession with the fantasy and romance of the movies. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman Suzanne Jill Levine, 2001 This is the first biography, now available in paperback, of Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentinian author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and pioneer of high camp. Suzanne Jill Levine, his principal English translator, draws upon years of friendship as well as copious research and interviews |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: El Beso de la Mujer Arana Manuel Puig, 2017-08-07 Two prisoners, Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui, share a cell in a Buenos Aires prison. Molina is in jail for corruption of a minor, while Valentin is a political prisoner who is part of a revolutionary group. The two men, opposites in every way, form an intimate bond in their cell, and their relationship changes both of them in profound ways. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Talking Pictures Ann Hornaday, 2017-06-13 A veteran film critic offers a lively, opinionated guide to thinking and talking about movies -- from Casablanca to Clueless Whether we are trying to impress a date after an art house film screening or discussing Oscar nominations among friends, we all need ways to look at and talk about movies. But with so much variety between an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron romantic comedy, how can everyday viewers determine what makes a good movie? In Talking Pictures, veteran film critic Ann Hornaday walks us through the production of a typical movie -- from script and casting to final sound edit -- and explains how to evaluate each piece of the process. How do we know if a film has been well-written, above and beyond snappy dialogue? What constitutes a great screen performance? What goes into praiseworthy cinematography, editing, and sound design? And what does a director really do? In a new epilogue, Hornaday addresses important questions of representation in film and the industry and how this can, and should, effect a movie-watching experience. Full of engaging anecdotes and interviews with actors and filmmakers, Talking Pictures will help us see movies in a whole new light-not just as fans, but as film critics in our own right. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman Suzanne Jill Levine, 2022-08-23 Manuel Puig & The Spider Woman tells the life story of the innovative and flamboyant novelist and playwright himself. Suzanne Jill Levine, his principal English translator, draws upon years of friendship as well as copious research and interviews in her remarkable book, the first biography of the inimitable writer. Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentinian author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and pioneer of high camp, stands alone in the pantheon of contemporary Latin American literature. Strongly influenced by Hollywood films of the thirties and forties, his many-layered novels and plays integrate serious fiction and popular culture, mixing political and sexual themes with B-movie scenarios. When his first two novels were published in the late 1960s, they delighted the public but were dismissed as frivolous by the leftist intellectuals of the Boom; his third novel was banned by the Peronist government for irreverence. His influence was already felt, though-even by writers who had dismissed him-and by the time the film version of Kiss of the Spider Woman became a worldwide hit, he was a renowned literary figure. Puig's way of life was as unconventional as his fiction: he spoke of himself in the female form in Spanish, renamed his friends for his favorite movie stars, referred to his young male devotees as daughters, and, as a perennial expatriate, lived (often with his mother) everywhere from Rome to Rio de Janeiro. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Kiss Of The Spider Woman And Two Other Plays Manuel Puig, 1994-05-03 Compiled together for the first time, here are three plays by Argentine novelist and playwright Manuel Puig, who died in 1990. The centerpiece of the volume is Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, made into an acclaimed film starring William Hurt. Also included are the compelling works Under a Mantle of Stars and Mystery of the Rose Bouquet. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Thirteen Months of Sunrise Rania Mamoun, 2019-05-09 A young woman sits by her father’s deathbed, lamenting her failure to keep a promise to him… A struggling writer walks every inch of the city in search of inspiration, only to find it is much closer than she imagined… A girl collapses from hunger at the side of the road and is rescued by the most unlikely of saviours... In this powerful, debut collection, Rania Mamoun expertly blends the real and imagined to create a rich, complex and moving portrait of contemporary Sudan. From painful encounters with loved ones to unexpected new friendships, Mamoun illuminates the breadth of human experience and explores, with humour and compassion, the alienation, isolation and estrangement that is urban life. Translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette. One of World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2019. One of The Guardian's 'Top 10 books about Sudan'. One of Bustle's '25 New Short Story Collections To Read This Summer'. One of Bookshy Book's 'Ten-Plus Short Story Collections from Writers of African Origin'. It is a phenomental, exacting collection. It's intense and intimate, and always bordering, with absolute control, on the subversive and erotic. It's also very funny - Rania Mamoun is an extraordinary talent.' - Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young ‘A stunning collection, remarkable for its sweet clarity of voice and startling depictions of the marginalised and the destitute. With mastery, Rania Mamoun reaches straight into the heartbeat of her subject matter, laying bare humanity in all its tenderness and tenacity.’ - Leila Aboulela, author of Elsewhere Home |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Approaches to Teaching Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman Daniel Balderston, Francine Masiello, 2007 Manuel Puig's 1976 Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated into English in 1979 and adapted as an Academy Award-winning film, expanded the idiom of the novel (mixing cinema, fiction, romance, and song) and challenged the third-person narration that was dominant in Latin American Boom fiction. Students are drawn to the conversational style of the novel and the melodramatic seductions of the tale, but they need guidance to appreciate the novel's richness as a work of literature. This volume of the MLA's Approaches to Teaching series suggests ways instructors can help students grasp the novel's exploration of state and sexual politics and discern the strategies of narration that underlie the conversations between the two main characters. In part 1, Materials, the editors discuss versions and translations of the novel, provide readings and resources, give an overview of the historical and political background of 1970s Argentina, and outline the author's biography. The thirteen essays in part 2, Approaches, written by distinguished scholars of Latin American literature, offer close textual analysis, examine the author's use of cinematic references, and present suggestions for teaching Héctor Babenco's film adaptation alongside the written text. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Eminent Maricones Jaime Manrique, 1999 One of the leading Latino writers working today offers a provocative autobiography interweaving his own story with the lives of three other gay Hispanic authors: Manuel Puig, Reinaldo Arenas, and Federico Garcia Lorca. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Pubis Angelical Manuel Puig, 1988-11-07 A novel of paranoia and sexual obsession by the author of Kiss of the Spider Woman, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth and Heartbreak Tango, which combines elements of espionage and science fiction as it relates, by turns, two intricately related tales. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: The Beast in the Jungle Henry James, 2015-09-04 Henry James’ Greatest Short Fiction Achievement “What had the man had, to make him by the loss of it so bleed and yet live? Something—and this reached him with a pang—that he, John Marcher, hadn’t; the proof of which was precisely John Marcher’s arid end. No passion had ever touched him, for this was what passion meant; he had survived and maundered and pined, but where had been his deep ravage?... The escape would have been to love her; then, then he would have lived. ” - Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories Like a beast in the jungle, protagonist John Marcher waits for some catastrophic event to happen letting life and love pass by. Eventually, he discovers that tragedy has already occurred: nobody can give his wasted time back. The other two stories, ‘The Jolly Corner’ and ‘The Altar of the Dead’ are another great examples of Henry James’ wonderful craft and knowledge of the human soul. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages Manuel Puig, 1999 In his first novel in English, Manuel Puig strikes a balance between irony and sympathy as he tells of the dealings of two men whose deceptive reminiscences recall those of the characters in his better-known Kiss of the Spider Woman. Larry, a down-out-out writer, is paid to push a wheelchair-bound Argentine political exile, Ramirez, around Greenwich Village. Through their journeys and their conversations about sex and politics, we witness the collision of two solitary fantasy systems, revealing the men to be enmeshed in the lies that make up their bitter, shadowy symbiosis. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: The Necessary Dream Pamela Bacarisse, 1988 The Latin American novelist Manuel Puig is perhaps best known for his novel Kiss of the Spider Woman. The Necessary Dream provides an introduction to and interpretation of his seven novels written from 1968 to 1982. While each novel is given a separate chapter, the homogenious thread of attitudes and themes which touch on psychology, feminism, Argentine politics and popular culture, is clearly displayed. Contents: Introduction; 'La Vie est ailleurs': ^R La traiciÛn de Rita Hayworth (1968); 'The Rules of the Game': Boquitas pintadas (1969); 'The Divided Self': The Buenos Aires Affair (1973); 'The Kiss of Death': El beso de la mujer aran?ía (1976); 'Only Make-Believe': Pubis angelical (1979); 'Les Liaisons dangereuses': MaldiciÛn eterna a quien lea estas p-ginas (1980); 'Life's a Dream': Sangre de amor correspondido (1982); Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth The Trip. John Donovan, 2010-09-08 I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. is best known as the first teen novel to address homosexuality. Set in 1969, Donovan’s seminal tale centers on Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old who moves to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Then he meets a boy and experiences something that changes his life. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Heartbreak Tango Manuel Puig, 2010 Awash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop songs, and movies. This melancholy and hilarious tango concerns the many women in orbit around Juan Carlos Etchepare, an impossibly beautiful Lothario wasting away ever-so-slowly from consumption, while those who loved and were spurned by him move on into workaday lives and unhappy marriages. Part elegy, part melodrama, and part dirty joke, this wicked and charming novel demonstrates Manuel Puig's mastery of both the highest and lowest forms of life and culture. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: The President and the Frog Carolina De Robertis, 2022-10-18 A sublime and gripping novel ... about hope: that within the world's messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe), from the acclaimed author of Cantoras. “In the president’s excruciating (and sometimes humorous) encounters with his strangely healing frog ... De Robertis daringly invites us to imagine a man’s Promethean struggle to wrest control of his broken psyche under the most dire circumstances possible.” —The New York Times Book Review At his modest home on the edge of town, the former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla who was jailed for inciting revolution before becoming the face of justice, human rights, and selflessness for his nation. Now, as he talks to the journalist, he wonders if he should reveal the strange secret of his imprisonment: while held in brutal solitary confinement, he survived, in part, by discussing revolution, the quest for dignity, and what it means to love a country, with the only creature who ever spoke back—a loud-mouth frog. As engrossing as it is innovative, vivid, moving, and full of wit and humor, The President and the Frog explores the resilience of the human spirit and what is possible when danger looms. Ferrying us between a grim jail cell and the president's lush gardens, the tale reaches beyond all borders and invites us to reimagine what it means to lead, to dare, and to dream. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: The Kiss of the Spider Woman John Kander, Terrence McNally, Fred Ebb, 1997 Characters: 15 male, 3 female Scenery: Interior Winner of multiple Tony Awards including Best Musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman revamps a harrowing tale of persecution into a dazzling spectacle that juxtaposes gritty realities with liberating fantasies. Cell mates in a Latin American prison, Valentin is a tough revolutionary undergoing torture and Molina is an unabashed homosexual serving eight years for deviant behavior. Molina shares his fantasies about an actress, Aurora (originated on Br |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: The Lazarus Rumba Ernesto Mestre, 2015-01-27 A modern tale rooted in recent historical events but filtered through a patiently unfolding storytelling style that pays homage to The Arabian Nights, The Lazarus Rumba is a stunning literary debut, a virtuoso performance like no other Latino writer has ever produced. This extraordinary ambitious novel sets out to portray the spiritual landscape of the Cuban people in the wake of Castro's revolutionary upheaval. Like Cervantes' Don Quixote, The Lazarus Rumba describes a country best by social dislocation and personal confusion, a country whose soul is best captured by a lush magic realism woven from innumerable tales, tales told contrapuntally in voices both melancholy and lively, lyrical and coarse, delicate and grotesque. As intensely political as Manuel Puig's Kiss Of The Spider Woman or Milan Kundera's The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting, The Lazarus Rumba centers around three generations of women in the Lucientes family and follows the story of Alicia Lucientes as she almost inadvertantly becomes the most famous dissident on the Island. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Planks of Reason Barry Keith Grant, Christopher Sharrett, 2004 The original edition of Planks of Reason was the first academic critical anthology on horror. In retrospect, it appeared as a kind of homage to the golden age of the American horror film, as this genre played an increasing role in film culture and American life. This revised edition retains the spirit of the original, but also offers new takes on rediscovered classics and recent developments in the genre. |
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| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Mundo Cruel Luis Negron, 2013-03-12 Luis Negrón’s debut collection reveals the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The writing straddles the shifting line between pure, unadorned storytelling and satire, exploring the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature of survival in a decidedly cruel world. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Boomerang / Bumerán Achy Obejas, 2021-09-07 A bilingual poetry collection from a Cuban-American writer-activist that explores themes of identity, sexuality, and belonging A unique and inspiriting bilingual collection of lyrical poetry written in a bold, mostly gender-free English and Spanish that address immigration, displacement, love and activism. The book is divided into 3 sections: First, poems addressing immigration and displacement; secondly, those addressing love, lost and found, and finally, verses focusing on action, on ways of addressing injustice and repairing the world. The volume will be both inspiration and support for readers living with marginalized identities and those who love and stand with them. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Betrayed by Rita Hayworth Manuel Puig, 2009 Finally back in print, Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. Centering around a boy named Toto, privy to the town's secrets and always eager to fill in the ugly or upsetting moments of his childhood with Hollywood-inspired fantasy, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth is a symphony of disappointed, comic, bitter, and bawdy voices, all hemmed in by life's refusal to behave like the silver screen, and is perhaps the funniest and most honest coming-of-age story of its time. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Blood of Requited Love Manuel Puig, 1999 In a conversation with Maria de Gloria, Josemar Ferreira, a poor Brazilian, tries to recreate the days of his adolescence |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, 2004 The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays Tennessee Williams, Terrence McNally, 2011 This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including The Pretty Trap, a cheerful take on The Glass Menagerie, and Interior: Panic, a stunning precursor to A Streetcar Named Desire. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Under a Mantle of Stars Manuel Puig, 1985 Not long before his untimely death, Manuel Puig revised Under a Mantle of Stars, which is his first play written directly for the stage. Now available in this new edition with all of Puig's changes and a translator's note, Under a Mantle of Stars proclaims Puig the master of a Pirandellian world all his own, a world of fright and the frightfully funny, one where the characters slip among fantasies that blend elegiac desire with fierce lust. At once tender, cruel, and hilarious, Under a Mantle of Stars distills essential Puig. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: The Lisbon Traviata Terrence McNally, 1992 THE STORY: The first act is set in the fussily ornate apartment of Mendy, a ferociously dedicated opera buff who begs and cajoles his friend Stephen to let him borrow his copy of the pirated Maria Callas recording of La Traviata made during |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: The Buenos Aires Affair Manuel Puig, 2010 Manuel Puig's masterful and ironic detective novel concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens--Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth--all combining to make a powerful portrait of two decidedly unglamorous lives: Gladys Hebe D'Onofrio, a lonely 35-year-old sculptor, tormented by her fantasies and perpetually in search of the ideal lover; and Leo Druscovich, an outwardly confident and successful art critic, deeply troubled by a terrible guilt that surfaces in his repeated sexual failures. Taking on, exchanging, and growing into the roles of victim and criminal, their lives presented through a variety of different kinds of evidence--lists, scribbled notes, transcripts, one-sided interrogations--these two lost souls gradually find themselves entirely dependent on one another... and heading towards precisely the sort of violent ending a detective novel demands. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Pop Culture Into Art Norman Lavers, 1988 Long acclaimed by Latin American critics, the Argentine novelist Manuel Puig became best known in this country for his novel Kiss of the Spider Woman. While Puig's seven novels are available in translation, an immense body of criticism and many of his most important interviews remain inaccessible to the non-Spanish reader. Written especially for the English-speaking audience, this study analyzes aspects of Puig's novels, summarizing the most important criticism in Spanish, and offers a biographical sketch of the man, making available for the first time in English selections from the most informative interviews. Readings of each of Puig's novels combined with Lavers's overview of the criticism in Spanish provide new insights into one of the most original and profound bodies of fiction of any current writer. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Point to Point Navigation Gore Vidal, 2007-10-09 In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society where he has cut a wide swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and sometimes lost). From encounters with, amongst others, Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Francis Ford Coppola to the mournful passing of his longtime partner, Howard Auster, Vidal always steers his narrative with grace and flair. Entertaining, provocative, and often moving, Point to Point Navigation wonderfully captures the life of one of twentieth-century America’s most important writers. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Mystery of the Rose Bouquet Manuel Puig, 1988-01 |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: A Manuscript of Ashes Antonio Muñoz Molina, 2008-08-04 In this “beautifully wrought” novel set in Franco-era Spain, a university student stumbles into a decades-old mystery (New York magazine). It’s the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco’s dictatorship. Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel’s country estate in the small town of Mágina to write his thesis on an old friend of his uncle, an obscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana. The country house is full of traces of the poet—notes, photographs, journals—and Minaya soon discovers that, thirty years earlier, during the Spanish Civil War, both his uncle and Solana were in love with the same woman, the beautiful, unsettling Mariana. Engaged to Manuel, she was shot in the attic of the house on her wedding night. With the aid of Inés, a maid, Minaya begins to search for Solana’s lost masterpiece, a novel called Beatus Ille. Looking for a book, he unravels a crime. One of Spain’s most celebrated literary figures, the author of Sepharad and In the Night of Time weaves a “rapturously gothic” tale that is both a novel of ideas and an intricately plotted mystery (The New York Sun). “A brilliant novel by an important writer unafraid of ideas, emotions and genuine beauty.” —Los Angeles Times “Already a contemporary classic, this work . . . is an enigmatic gem in the very best metafiction tradition.” —Library Journal |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace Gore Vidal, 2002-04-10 The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called perpetual war for perpetual peace. The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed too controversial to publish in this country until now) Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He asks were these simply the acts of evil-doers? Gore Vidal is the master essayist of our age. -- Washington Post Our greatest living man of letters. -- Boston Globe Vidal's imagination of American politics is so powerful as to compel awe. -- Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America Matthew C. Gutmann, 2003-01-20 Ranging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America is a collection of pioneering studies of what it means to be a man in Latin America. Matthew C. Gutmann brings together essays by well-known U.S. Latin Americanists and newly translated essays by noted Latin American scholars. Historically grounded and attuned to global political and economic changes, this collection investigates what, if anything, is distinctive about and common to masculinity across Latin America at the same time that it considers the relative benefits and drawbacks of studies focusing on men there. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, the contributors illuminate the changing relationships between men and women and among men of different ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and classes. The contributors look at Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, and the United States. They bring to bear a number of disciplines—anthropology, history, literature, public health, and sociology—and a variety of methodologies including ethnography, literary criticism, and statistical analysis. Whether analyzing rape legislation in Argentina, the unique space for candid discussions of masculinity created in an Alcoholics Anonymous group in Mexico, the role of shame in shaping Chicana and Chicano identities and gender relations, or homosexuality in Brazil, Changing Men and Masculinities highlights the complex distinctions between normative conceptions of masculinity in Latin America and the actual experiences and thoughts of particular men and women. Contributors. Xavier Andrade, Daniel Balderston, Peter Beattie, Stanley Brandes, Héctor Carrillo, Miguel Díaz Barriga, Agustín Escobar, Francisco Ferrándiz, Claudia Fonseca, Norma Fuller, Matthew C. Gutmann, Donna Guy, Florencia Mallon, José Olavarría, Richard Parker, Mara Viveros |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Kiss of the Spider Woman Manuel Puig, 1985 |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Steel Pier John Kander, David Thompson, Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman, 1998 Genre: Musical Characters: 7 males, 8 females, and chorus of 8 males and 5 females In the honky tonk world of marathon dancing in Atlantic City in 1933, a captivating assortment of depression era souls eager to dance their way into fame and prizes gather on the Steel Pier. The spectacle is presided over by an oily tongued emcee who is secretly married to Rita Racine, the champion dancer. Her usual partner doesn't show up, so she is paired with a handsome pilot on leave. As the hours o |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Cantoras Caro de Robertis, 2020-06-02 In defiance of the brutal military government that took power in Uruguay in the 1970s, and under which homosexuality is a dangerous transgression, five women miraculously find one another—and, together, an isolated cape that they claim as their own. Over the next thirty-five years, they travel back and forth from this secret sanctuary, sometimes together, sometimes in pairs, with lovers in tow or alone. Throughout it all, they will be tested repeatedly—by their families, lovers, society, and one another—as they fight to live authentic lives. A groundbreaking, genre-defining work, Cantoras is a breathtaking portrait of queer love, community, forgotten history, and the strength of the human spirit. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman Suzanne Jill Levine, 2000 Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentinian author of Kiss of the Spiderwoman and pioneer of high camp, stands alone in the pantheon of contemporary Latin American literature. Strongly influenced by Hollywood films of the 30s and 40s, his many-layered novels and plays integrate serious fiction and popular culture, mixing political and sexual themes with B-movie scenarios. Puig's way of life was as unconventional as his fiction: he spoke of himself in the female form in Spanish, renamed his friends for his favourite movie stars and referred to his young male devotees as 'daughters'. Suzanne Jill Levine, his principal English translator, draws upon years of friendship as well as copious research and interviews in her remarkable book. |
| kiss of the spider woman manuel puig: Spider Kiss Harlan Ellison, 2012-03-05 If you thought the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction, craziness about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit or invaders from space who look like pink eggplant and smell like chicken soup, this dynamite novel of the emergent days of rock and roll will turn you around at least three times. No spaceships, no robots, just a nice kid from Louisville with a voice like an angel and an invisible monkey named Success riding him straight to hell... |
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Argentinean playwright and novelist Manuel Puig (1932-1990) is best known for his novels Betrayed By Rita Hayworth, Heartbreak Tango and Kiss Of The Spider Woman, as well as for the latter’s stage and film adaptation.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman is an intricate and powerful portrayal of two men who are forced to share a cell in a Latin American jail. One, Valentine, is a young Marxist rebel punished for his ideals. The other, Molina, is a romantic fantasist condemned for his sexuality.
Manuel Puig Kiss Of The Spider Woman
Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976), a novel later adapted into a celebrated film directed by Héctor Babenco in 1985, remains a landmark achievement in both...
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Summary: This article examines the profound impact of Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman on the cinematic and literary landscapes. It explores the novel's innovative narrative structure, its groundbreaking portrayal of homosexuality and
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Although Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman (trans. 1979) is a particularly apt example of Bakhtin's theories, this novel has received surprisingly scant discussion in Bakhtinian terms.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman. Manuel Puig. Translated from Spanish by Thomas Colchie. Vintage. his novel, written by an Argentinian exile now living in New York City, follows the evolving...
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confines of social convention, Manuel Puig's fourth novel, Kiss of the Spider Woman, illustrates the ways in which authoritative customs and prescribed categories of thought shape and inhibit experience.
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"Kiss of the Spider Woman" by Manuel Puig is a poignant and thought-provoking play set against the backdrop of a political prison in 1970s Argentina. The play captures a specific historical context—a time of political turmoil and social upheaval—providing a powerful commentary on the complexities of human relationships and societal structures.
Femininity and Effeminophobia in Manuel Puig's "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman challenges the critical understanding of male femininity and homosexu-ality. I argue that the privileging of homosexuality has meant that the study of femininity has been insufficient; as such, this essay draws on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's notion of "effeminophobia" and studies Molina's femininity.
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Kiss of a Spider Woman (Mandarin Edition) Manuel Puig,2014-02-25 《蜘蛛女之吻》 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.
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But the implications of an explosion of the id where sexual and social forces combine and opposing structures combine remains as a powerful element in Puig's novel. In Kiss of the Spider Woman, as the content of the horror films suggest, Molina and Valentin represent a fractured personality.
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"Kiss of the Spider Woman Manuel Puig": A powerful and thought-provoking novel exploring themes of love, identity, and political oppression through the lens of a prison setting, it highlights the complexities of human connection in the face of adversity.
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Whispering the Strategies of Language: An Emotional Journey through Manuel Puig Kiss Of The Spider Woman In a digitally-driven earth where monitors reign supreme and quick conversation drowns out the subtleties of language, the profound secrets and mental subtleties
Like A Woman: Playing The Homosexual As Truth In Kiss Of The Spider …
Manuel Puig, The Buenos Aires Affair. In Act One of Manuel Puig’s . Kiss of the Spider Woman, Molina, one of the show’s two central characters, asks of Valentin, his cellmate in prison and the other central character, “What’s wrong with being soft like a woman? Why can’t a man…be sensitive if he feels like it” (Puig 1359).
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Manuel Puig’s novel, Kiss of the Spider Woman, was published in 1976 and in it circulate questions about Hollywood fantasies, political injus- tice, and unrequited love all in one of the most austere narrative frames
The Politics of Friendship in Manuel Puig's 'Kiss of the Spider Woman …
This article considers the extent to which Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman aligns with classical as well as postmodern views of friendship and its political relevance, particularly those of Hannah Arendt, the German-American political theorist. It aims to elucidate Puig's vision of the politics of friendship—i.e., politics based on
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With its thematic focus on identification and leftist politics, Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman is a paradigmatic text within a contemporary cultural genre that I call "sentimental postmodernism."
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the novel. Kiss of the Spider Woman demonstrates both the power of society's standards to oppress and the power of the author to subvert these standards through his writing. In the Spider Woman novel, Puig draws upon cinematic mate-rial, interweaving it with the life of two inmates, a political sub-versive and a homosexual, in a jail in Buenos ...
