Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the films he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which mak[...]
Compiled together for the first time, here are three plays by Argentine novelist and playwright Manual Puig: the well-known Kiss of the Spider Woman, a sharply provocative tale of love, victimization, and fantasy, and of the friendship that develops between two strikingly different men imprisoned to[...]
The cinephobic novelist who complains to Fitzgerald's tycoon that he will never get the hang of scriptwriting wouldn't give a nickel for the movies. Yet never before the appearance of film had human perception been engaged in such an all-encompassing way by a single art form. In this ambitious inves[...]
(Vocal Selections). 11 compositions from this musical drama of transformation in a Latin American prison. Includes: Anything for Him * The Day After That * Dear One * Dressing Them Up * I Do Miracles * Kiss of the Spider Woman * The Morphine Tango 1 * Only in the Movies * Over the Wall 2 * She's a W[...]
In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women - an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband's fairy-tale castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s, convalescing in a hospital; and a futuristic cyborg sex slave, occupying[...]
Finally available again after many years, one of the most compelling novels from Argentina's great novelists.[...]
Manuel Puig s masterful and ironic detective novel concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth all combining to make a powerful portrait of two decidedly unglamorous lives: Gladys Hebe D O[...]
What do we really know about Jesus of Nazareth? Two thousand years after his death, this adored yet controversial figure continues to raise a wealth of questions. In Jesus: A Biography , celebrated Catalan New Testament scholar Armand Puig i TArrech weaves a comprehensive historical narrative to a[...]
This book highlights structured analytic techniques - some widely used in the private sector and academia, some unique to the intelligence profession. Using the analytic techniques contained in this primer will assist analysts in dealing with the perennial problems of intelligence: the complexity of[...]
In an Argentine prison, the growing friendship between a thirty-seven-year-old homosexual, Molina, and a young Marxist, Valentin, is threatened when police officials start pressuring Molina to spy against Valentin.[...]
Den långa vägen till självstyre. En insiktsfull skildring av de baskiska och katalanska frihetssträvandena.
Baskien och Katalonien är två självstyrande spanska provinser som är relativt okända för den svenska allmänheten. Boken ger en historisk bakgrund men behandlar också de [...]