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On the movements of the homosexual after his release, some scattered interior monologues and a sequence of footnotes (mostly a fragmentary academic essay on homosexuality), but these are only minor supportive intrusions. There are also three brief dialogues with the prison warden (in which we learn that the homosexual is a police plant), a police report Men in a prison cell, a 'straight' Marxist student and a middle-aging apolitical homosexual. Puig's fans will perhaps find thin and disappointing) being a running dialogue between two In 'Kiss of the Spider Woman,' he just listens, seeing nothing, most of the book ( a rather frail little love story that Mr. He listens in on phone calls (sometimes one side, sometimes both), prayers, casualĬonversations, formal declarations, but also on dreams, fears, fantasies, meditations, and sometimes he just watches, hearing nothing. Police and hospital reports, letters, advertisements, labels, popular song lyrics, shopping lists - letting them tell their own stories without comment. He likes especially to use the debris of the world - newspaper and magazine clippings, photo albums, Melodramas of everyday life in novel ways, sometimes borrowing from the old forms of popular literature, sometimes inventing his own. Translated by Thomas Colchie.Īnuel Puig is an experimental realist from Argentina who, in his search for what he calls 'a new form of popular literature,' likes to recount the ordinary ApOld, New, Borrowed, Blue By ROBERT COOVERīy Manuel Puig.

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