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Puig, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman, has produced a novel of feminine reverie and feminist polemic. At its center is a dialogue between two womenone possibly dying, the other attending herthat is grounded in the musings of women in love, serving others, revengeful and disillusioned. These two women hold opposing political positions and express their pain in both an emotional texture and a feminist context. Around this core dialogue, Puig places, in turn, a dream, a spy-fable and science fiction sequences that suggest high literary ambitions but do not arouse the reader's curiosity. These devices seem to exist purely as style, portending great insights but revealing very little. All in all, this is a curious and disappointing exercise. 30,000 first printing; major ad/promo.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
His novel Kiss of the Spider Woman having been made into an acclaimed movie, Argentinian Puig will now command attention from readers not previously familiar with his fiction. In Pubis Angelical he interweaves three stories, the first about a beautiful Viennese actress held captive in a mysterious marriage to a World War II munitions maker. The second and most interesting story, since it encompasses a history of Peronism, concerns an Argentinian refugee, dying in a Mexico City hospital, and her conversations with an old friend and an old lover. The third narrative is a futuristic spy thriller about a secret agent called W218. The implication is that one of the three women is real, the others fantasies or projections. Feminist and political themes are clear; but, except for the moving story of the dying woman, the novel is more confusing than compelling.Janet Wiehe, P.L. of Cincinnati and Hamilton Cty.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Surely a winner with feminists,
This review is from: Pubis Angelical (Paperback)
A novel which is critcal of the objectification of females and their subjugation at the hands of men but a novel which offers no alternative depiction. The women in the novel have little identity other than as objects and, for the most part, accept this role with token resistance. The most fleshed out (and yet singularly vapid character) in the novel lies helpless in hospital and is, even at death's door, subject to the will of the man/men in her life.Half-baked really. Re other reviews: yes, at the end of the day, the novel is really not worth the effort.
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