![]() This has the interesting effect of both emphasising their separation and togetherness their difference and their need for each other. The novel mainly consists of the dialogue between the two men – although there are moments when italics are used to show us Molina’s thoughts, and, later, Molina’s dialogue with the prison Warden and some police reports, there is no other narrative. One, Valentin, is a political prisoner the other, Molina, is gay, charged with “corruption of minors”. The novel is set almost entirely in a prison cell containing two very different inmates. ![]() ![]() ![]() Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel Kiss of the Spider Woman (translated by Thomas Colchie in 1979) remains his most famous work (it certainly seems to be the only one of his novels still in print in the UK). ![]()
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