- Pubis Angelical
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name = Pubis angelical
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author =Manuel Puig
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country =Argentina
language = Spanish
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genre =Novel
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release_date = 1979
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followed_by ="Pubis Angelical" is a 1979 novel by acclaimed
Argentine novelistManuel Puig . It is perhaps Puig's work most influenced bypop culture . This can be seen in the montage imitating narrative technique,soap opera andscience fiction elements. Also like other Puig works, it deals withpsychological andsexual issues.A
film was released in 1981.Plot introduction
The narrative alternates between separate narratives. One is reality, an
Argentine woman confined to aMexican sanitarium in the 1970s. The others are a representation of her unconscious. In this second narrative, the woman is inCentral Europe in the years leading up toWorld War II . She is here involved in various intrigues, and carries on an extramarital romance. The third narrative, another representation of the protagonist's unconscious, is a science fiction tale involving a cyborg woman named W218 in a post-apocalyptic Polar Age, who serves the government by performing sexual therapy on aging men, and is therefore in a sense a government sponsored prostitute.
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