El beso de la mujer araña - Hardcover

253 pp , ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne , better known as Manuel Puig ( December 28, 1932 , General Villegas , Province of Buenos Aires. - July 22, 1990 , Cuernavaca , Morelos , Mexico ) was an Argentine writer mainly famous for his novels Heartbreak painted and kiss of the Spider Woman . He spent his childhood in his small hometown and emigrated to Argentina's capital to carry out their secondary studies. After starting different college , he chose formed in the film , for which he moved to Italy. He did not specify their training and ended up performing as a writer. He lived in Rome, Paris , London, Stockholm , New York , Rio de Janeiro and Cuernavaca. He is the author of eight novels and four plays , plus short stories and screenplays. He is known for his use of literary polyphony and interior.1 monologue Although from puberty was assumed to be homosexual, escribiónota 1 and campaigned on this issue , coming to declare something as "banal" as sexuality can not define the identity of a person and on the other hand, felt that homosexual activity groups tend to make the mistake of separating the homosexual issue of other groups, communities or sectors sociales.En exile ended kiss of the Spider Woman in 1976. it tells the story of two prisoners sharing a cell in Argentina 's dictatorship . One is a militant revolutionary organization and the other an effeminate homosexual accused of corruption of minors . Both lock a complex relationship whose poetic backdrop powered film and fantasy, does explore the limits of roles and social conventions. The novel gave international recognition to its author . However , Gallimard , who until then had published all his novels , he refused. The responsibility for this decision was Aurora Bernárdez note 3, with the justification that the image of the revolutionary softened by the effeminate homosexual went against the Leninist ideals with which the publisher correspondía.11 Following his example , other European publ