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Before Night Falls : A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas (1994, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140157654
ISBN-139780140157659
eBay Product ID (ePID)57306
Product Key Features
Original LanguageSpanish
Book TitleBefore Night Falls : a Memoir
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCaribbean & Latin American, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies
Publication Year1994
FeaturesReprint
GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorReinaldo Arenas
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.6 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN92-046264
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"Dolores Koch's translation is a great achievement. She is not only accurate and faithful to the original but she even captures Arenas's flashes of lyricism and melancholy...Reading Arenas is like witnessing a bare consciousness in the process of assimilating the most universal, but powerful, human experiences and turning them into literature. Because of this, "Before Night Falls" is crucial to understanding his works. But, more important, it is a record of human cruelty and the toils of one individual to survive them." -- The New York Times "One of the most shattering testimonials ever written on the subject of oppression and defiance"-- Mario Vargas Llosa "Any attempt to reckon with Cuba's torturous twentieth century will have to take into account Arenas's monumental work ... an essential human testimony, joyful and enraged, a triumph of conscience." -- Garth Greenwell "A document of a particular and disturbing honesty by one of the truly great writers to come out of Latin America." Chicago Tribune "One of the most searing satirical writers of the 20th century, a worthy successor to Aristophanes and Swift." -- Jaime Manrique Village Voice "In this powerful memoir of passions both personal and political, Cuban author Arenas describes his voyage from peasant poverty to his oppression as a dissident writer and homosexual." -- Publishers Weekly "A last testament that resonates with passion for the freedom of the human spirit and for the author's beloved Cuba: a distinguished addition to the literature of dissent and exile." -- Kirkus Reviews
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal863 B
Grade ToUP
Table Of ContentBefore Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas Introduction: The End The Stones The Grove The River School The Temple of the Spirits The Well Christmas Eve The Harvest The Downpour The Spectacle Eroticism Violence The Morning Fog The Night, My Grandmother The Earth The Sea Politics Holguíin The Rub Pub Christmas Rebel The Revolution A Student Havana Fidel Castro Hymns The Fire Theatrics and the Chicken Farm Raúl Good-bye to the Chicken Farm The Library The Cuban Book Institute The Four Categories of Gays Virgilio Piñra Lezama Lima My Generation A Trip Eroticism Jorge and Margarita Santa Marcia [Saint Queer] The Abreu Brothers Super-Stalinism The Sugar Mill Olga Andreu The Padilla "Case" A Trip to Holguíin Nelson Rodríguez The Wedding The Arrest The Flight The Capture Prison Villa Marista Again at El Morro An "Open" Jail Out on the Street The Monserrate Hotel Good-Bye to Virgilio Mariel Key West Miami Exile Witches Mariel Magazine Travels Madness The Eviction The Announcement Dreams Farewell
Edition DescriptionReprint
Synopsis"Any attempt to reckon with Cuba's torturous twentieth century will have to take into account Arenas's monumental work ... an essential human testimony, joyful and enraged, a triumph of conscience." -- Garth Greenwell The acclaimed memoir of queer Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas chronicling his tumultuous yet luminary life, from his impoverished upbringing in Cuba to his imprisonment at the hands of a Communist regime The astonishing memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books --sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his supression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. In what The Miami Herald calls his "deathbed ode to eroticism," Arenas breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime. Recorded in simple, straightforward prose, this is the true story of the Kafkaesque life and world re-created in the author's acclaimed novels., The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books --sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his supression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. In what The Miami Herald calls his "deathbed ode to eroticism," Arenas breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime. Recorded in simple, straightforward prose, this is the true story of the Kafkaesque life and world re-created in the author's acclaimed novels.
LC Classification NumberPQ7390
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