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Before Night Falls By Reinaldo Arenas

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.

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In 1965, a then twenty-two-year-old Reinaldo Arenas had won second prize for the manuscript of his first novel, Celestino Before Dawn, in an annual competition for best fiction sponsored by UNEAC in Havana. With a truly incantatory blend of the prosaic and the lyrical, a young boy “sings” the tale of his own awakenings, sexual and poetic, to the world about him through the irreverent promptings of his. Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls (Penguin, 1993) Arenas' memoir of life in Cuba has recently been made into one of the finest films extant by Julian Schnabel. Schnabel did an excellent job with the book; while his interpretation of the text was loose in places, he managed to capture in images the style of Arenas'. Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas. Condition is 'Very Good'. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Some slight wear to edges of cover. Overall great used condition.

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Reinaldo Arenas Biography

  • Before Night Falls. By Reinaldo Arenas. THE LITERARY WORK. An autobiographical memoir set in Cuba and in the United States from 1945 to 1990; published posthumously in Spanish (as Antes que anochezca) m 1992, in English in 1993. The author reexamines his life in 70 short sections that progress from his childhood (age two) in Cuba to his death in exile (at age 47) in the United States.
  • Reinaldo Arenas. Average rating: 4.08 8,282 ratings 764 reviews 52 distinct works. Similar authors. Before Night Falls. Reinaldo Arenas, Dolores M. Koch (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 5,020 ratings — published 1992 — 46 editions.