La obra más conocida de Manuel Puig, "el brillantemente inventivo novelista argentino" (The New York Times), es ahora el tema de una premiada comedia musical. El beso de la mujer araña es una elegante y fascinante novela sobre el amor y la victimización. En una cárcel argentina, dos hombres comparten una celda: Molina, un diseñador de escaparates homosexual que es egoísta, auto-denigrante y al mismo tiempo encantador; y Valentín, un revolucionario articulado y ferozmente dogmático obsesionado con la memoria de la mujer que abandonó por la causa. Ambos son gradualmente transformados por su cautelosa pero creciente obsesión de Molina con la fantasía y el romance del cine. Manuel Puig's best-known work, "the brilliantly inventive Argentine novelist" (The New York Times), is now the subject of an award-winning musical comedy. Kiss of the Spider Woman is an elegant and fascinating novel about love and victimization. In an Argentine jail, two men share a cell: Molina, a homosexual window designer who is selfish, self-denigrating, and at the same time charming; and Valentin, an articulate and fiercely dogmatic revolutionary obsessed with the memory of the woman he abandoned for the cause. Both are gradually transformed by Molina's cautious but growing obsession with film fantasy and romance.
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