Poetics of cinema in the novel of Manuel Puig "Kiss of the spider woman"

The article is devoted to the urgent topic of the synthesis of such arts as cinematography and literature. The main content of the present study is an analysis of the means and techniques used to achieve film-looking effect in literature based on the novel "Kiss of the Spider Woman" by the Argentine postmodernist writer Manuel Puig. Film-looking effect of this novel can be taken into account due to its construction and the description of several movie plots in it as well as some facts of the author's biography that proves his deep interest in cinematography. Conclusion is made on the basis of analysis of the cinema poetics.