Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman

Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman
Author: Suzanne Jill Levine
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780299175740

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

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030776396X

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.

Pubis Angelical

Pubis Angelical
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1988-11-07
Genre: Argentine fiction
ISBN: 9780571152155

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.

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher: McNally Editions
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781946022424

Manuel Puig's "dazzling and wholly original debut" (New York Times Book Review) 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. When it appeared in 1968, Manuel Puig’s debut—a portrait of the artist as a child in small-town Argentina—was hailed as revolutionary. Borrowing from the language of "true romance" and movie magazines, the techniques of American modernism, and Hollywood montage, Puig created an exuberant queer aesthetic while also celebrating the secret lives of women. Hanging on the conversations of his mother, friends, and neighbors, Puig's stand-in Toto pieces together stories as full of passion, desire, and revenge as anything dreamed up for the silver screen. “A screamingly funny book, with scenes of such utter bathos that only a student of final reels such as Puig could possibly have verbally recreated for us” (Alexander Coleman, New York Times), it is also a bittersweet love letter to the the golden age of Hollywood.

Heartbreak Tango

Heartbreak Tango
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 156478553X

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.

The Buenos Aires Affair

The Buenos Aires Affair
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Art critics
ISBN: 9781564785800

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.

Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages

Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780816635368

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.

Blood of Requited Love

Blood of Requited Love
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780816635351

In a conversation with Maria de Gloria, Josemar Ferreira, a poor Brazilian, tries to recreate the days of his adolescence

El Beso de la Mujer Arana

El Beso de la Mujer Arana
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9789968636285

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.

Eminent Maricones

Eminent Maricones
Author: Jaime Manrique
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780299161842

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.