I was wondering if this book was ever taught in american schools, along with the movie. i was fortunate to go to school overseas, in latin america and in my 11th grade english class it was one of the books we studied as part of the IB program. one of my most memorable calss books ever. both book and film are beautiful.
miky
I am a student at UC santa cruz in America and for my Spanish lit class, fiction and marginality, we are currently reading this book. The class is taught in spanish and includes other books such as Casa en mango street, los rios profundos, perdo paramo and others. Since I am not good with literature in any language, especially spanish my fourth language, i decided to watch the movie to help me get a picture (pun not inteded) of what is going on. Weird movie i thought. I did like the acting and i thought the movie as a whole is ahead of its time and deals with pretty radical topics at least from an american point of view. it's good though i liked it, now to read the book.
P.S. You said you saw this movie overseas, in latin american. Just out of curioustiy are you in the States? cuz that techinaly is not overseas its up the land mass.
lol, i lived in venezuela for two years. but it could be over the sea, considering you have to fly over the carribean sea to get there :P i currently live in colorado. thanks for you comment :)
shareWe read it in my upper-division English Critical Theory class at the University of Utah. I haven't seen the film yet, mainly because I have a hard time believing it would translate into film very well, but we studied the book in relation to a number of other texts including Freud and film theorist Laura Mulvey. It was pretty interesting.
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im in the US and we are reading it in 11th grade IB
shareI read Siddhartha in my IB class too.
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I´m a senior in Argentina and we´re reading this book. It´s either "kiss of the spider woman" or "Painted Lips", both written by Manuel Puig.
Painted Lips (boquitas pintadas) is less explicit if you´re worried about the sex scene