by Manuel Puig · Editorial Seix Barral, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432220654
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«Pubis Angelical» is the novel by Manuel Puig, published by Editorial Seix Barral in paperback (269 pages, in Spanish).
An actress convalesces in a Mexico City hospital while her memory and cinematic fantasies intertwine with the lives of other women marked by love and repression. With a fragmented narrative that shifts register and style, Manuel Puig builds a reflection on power, female identity, and politics in Latin American society.
Novel originally published in 1979. This 1985 edition belongs to the Seix Barral Contemporary Literature collection, number 62.
For readers of twentieth-century Latin American narrative and contemporary fiction interested in an experimental work by Manuel Puig.
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.
