For 10 points, name this Argentine author who created Toto Casals in Betrayed by Rita Hayworth and the gay cellmates Valentin and Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
This author ended one of his novels with a passage in which the main character counts up to thirty three and then imagines himself on an island making love to a native girl, pretending that she is his ex-lover Marta, as morphine courses through his body. He packed psychological theories about homosexuality into the footnotes of that book, in which one character entertains another with the story of Leni's affair with a Nazi German officer. One of his novels is titled for the humiliation inflicted upon Tyrone Power in "Blood and Sand," which along with "The Great Waltz" is interpreted in the protagonist's essay "The Movie I Liked Best." For 10 points, name this Argentine author who created Toto Casals in Betrayed by Rita Hayworth and the gay cellmates Valentin and Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
This author ended one of his novels with a passage in which the main character counts up to thirty three and then imagines himself on an island making love to a native girl, pretending that she is his ex-lover Marta, as morphine courses through his body.
Manuel Puig