The Narrative Subject Of Kiss Of The Spider Woman

Manuel Puig is a famous novelist of Argentina, with its peculiar style listed in Latin American literature" A New Generation After The Explosion". He thinks that the key to novel creation is the language and absolutely freedom in the form. With the diversification of tactics, his masterpiece Kiss of The Spider Woman vividly describes the emotions between two men in a certain social circumstances. This thesis takes the narrative subject as the entry point and firstly illustrate the definition of "narrative subject", it is compounded as a dual form as "framework-personality ".So while clarifying the concept of narrative subject,the thesis begins with dividing it into several speech subjects by their genres and intentionality.And then the argument focuses on the potential significance of text showed through the spatiality and interrelationship of speech subjects,and the control of the framework level narrator.The last part of the article discusses the aesthetic significance that the narrative subject expresses.First illuminates the imitation of narrative form of film narrative structure. And then analyze the characteristics of narrative during the cultural shift of modernism and the post-modernism,explaining that the cinematic narrative rhythm in this novel is due to an exploration of human experience of time.Finally discusses the living attitude implied by the aesthetic significance.For Puig, Kiss of The Spider Woman is the continuation of his thinking of "no suppressed narrative". The aesthetic unity of narrative saved the division, thereby it has implications for the individuals who lose themselves and can only copied others’ words in the present.The analysis of the novel Kiss of The Spider Woman appears that Puig puts his thinking of individuals into the text. So analyzing the text from narrative subject will help to avoid a mechanized reading and merge the theme with the narrative better, at the same time extending the vision of research into the field of reality.