In 1991, Manuel Puig published a novel titled Kiss of the Spider Woman. In the novel, the two main characters, Molina, a homosexual window dresser incarcerated for allegedly corrupting a minor, and Valentin, a Marxist revolutionary imprisoned for supposed terrorist activities, are set in an Argentine prison. As the plot progresses, the misery of prison life makes these two cellmates very close friends. By making use of the time both characters are in prison to share films related by Molina and by borrowing from other texts, the novel evidently focuses on Molina in hopes that the reader will gain further understanding of the character as a whole.
As both characters are in prison, the films related by Molina are borrowed by the novel to represent
As both characters are in prison, the films related by Molina are borrowed by the novel to represent