El beso de la mujer araña by Manuel Puig

Novel Manuel Puig homosexuality transgenerism sexual revolution female symbolism criticism of the patriarchal structure. But in the book there is no room for political utopia: the system still controls the bodies, outside the island-woman reign death and torture, a world that is still waiting for the revolution instead, sexualities have been released and satisfied.

A Broadway musical of the same name, also based on the novel, was produced in 1993. La productora Pentación Espectáculos, de Jesús Cimarro, estrenó el jueves 15 de septiembre en el Teatro Bellas Artes, ‘El beso de la mujer araña’, que permanecerá hasta el 16 de octubre con funciones de miércoles a domingos. The Argentinian author was the first to adapt his own novel as a stage play. Manuel Puig, con su obra, nos enseñó a vivir la vida de otro modo. El beso is a symbol of communion between both characters and the gathering of political and sexual revolutions. The film is based on the 1976 novel El beso de la mujer araa (Kiss of the Spider Woman) by Manuel Puig. Molina, a woman trapped in a man’s body and in the representations that society makes on that body, and Valentín, a political prisoner, shielded by island-woman, are moving toward the possibility of realization, learning or becoming: Molina toward a becoming into a woman Valentín, toward a becoming into person, into sexual polymorphous. Through El beso de la mujer araña it proposes a status quo characterized by the relationships of domination of some over others, status that is not exceeded only through the political revolution, but must involve the release of the bodies through the sexual revolution. The island-woman: Female as release in El beso de la mujer araña by Manuel Puig. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:36:23.775194 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1144907 City New York Donor