by Manuel Puig · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432239922
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Rita Hayworth's Betrayal is Manuel Puig's most autobiographical novel, telling the story of a boy whose only real contact with the world is the fiction of movies. Set in Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s, the book reveals the alienation of a community dominated by cinematographic myths. The protagonist finds in cinema a refuge and a window to the outside world, while the threat of Rita Hayworth looms over him.
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author and LGBTQ activist. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintadas, and El beso de la mujer araña which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
