The Nation, April 18th, 1987
PUBIS ANGELICAL
First published in 1979, ManuelPuig's Pubis Angelical is an altogether bleaker novel than his better-known Kiss of the Spider Woman. Like this earlier novel, however, it is set in 1975 and alludes indirectly to the escalating violence of Isabel Peron's final days in power.
The protagonist, Ana, who is saidto resemble the 1930s film star Hedy Lamarr, is in a hospital in Mexico waiting for the results of a biopsy. She has left Argentina to escape the attentions of a powerful and threatening admirer, Alejandro, only to find herself imprisoned in her hospital bed with no contac...
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