Dualizm człowieka przedstawiony w Pocałunku Kobiety Pająka. Książka Manuela Puiga i jej filmowa adaptacja
Man’s dual nature shown in Kiss of the Spider Woman. The novel by Manuel Puig and its film adaptation

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyze and interpret the content contained in the text of Kiss of the Spider Woman, and its film version – with an em­phasis put upon the issue of socio­cultural gen­der identity – with stylistic measures applied by the authors for their expression. Among other things, the unusual form of narrative decided by the writer and how the filmmakers adapted it into the language of cinema is observed. An unmarked dialogue of main characters, occasionally interrupted by the conversations in the warden’s office, prison reports, stream of con­sciousness or extensive scientific footnotes, are spokes put in the readers wheel not by a coincidence. With the help of his innovative narra­tive Manuel Puig opens reader’s eyes as well as those of his protagonists to the matters appar­ently unfamiliar to them. To the general public, the writer gives his views on the issues that to a large extent, are current today. The key issue undertaken by the writer, which was analyzed in the text, is the ambiguous nature of a man. In the setting of a dark­grey prison cell which is quite the opposite of the Hollywood films’ set design imagined and beautifully described by fictitious Luis Molina, the writer presents his reflections about what femininity, masculinity, and sexuality is. Those thoughts together with literary and film means of expression happened to be the subject of this article.

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