STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

John wonders:
"Sounds exactly like the basic set up in Puig's KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN.  Great
novel, BTW. Never saw the Cuban film--are there any other similarities?  Think it was a
deliberate echo?"


It *is* similar in theme, although Puig's novel (much more than the film) is
also an inquiry into the very nature of sexual identity (with a very obvious
bow to Foucault).  Alea, I think, is more interested in some kind of
reprochement between private life and revolutionary responsibity.  It's
probably no accident that the film is set in the earlier years of the
Revolution.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)