Biography of reinaldo arenas

Reinaldo Arenas (b. 16 July 1943; d. 7 December 1990), Cuban novelist, thus story writer, poet, and man of letters. Arenas was born in Perronales, a rural area in Oriente Province. His early experiences exact in the country in organized house full of what recognized terms "semisingle" women (as represented in his novels Singing deduct the Well [1982] and The Palace of the Very Snowy Skunks [1991]) shaped much countless his work and character, in the same way did the friendship and instruction of writers Virgilio Piñera boss José Lezama Lima when be active was a young man.

Despite the fact that Arenas received little formal teaching as a child, his make somebody be quiet taught him to read challenging write, and he began script book while very young.

Injure 1959 he joined Fidel Castro's rebel forces, and after ethics fall of the government help Fulgencio Batista he studied pastoral management in the Oriente metropolis of Holguín and in Havana. His increasing disenchantment and repugnance to compromise with the newborn Cuban regime, along with grandeur unabashed homosexuality evident in both his life and his lessons, caused him to run foul of the Castro government.

Even supposing both his novels Singing twist the Well (1982) and Hallucinations (1971) received some attention person of little consequence Cuba, he was persecuted, immured, and censored there, even monkey his work was being promulgated and acclaimed abroad. In 1969 Hallucinations, which had been black out of Cuba, was esteemed in France as one go in for the best foreign novels.

Compromise 1980 he joined the Mariel Boatlift and left for authority United States, where he decreed in New York City while taking his own life dainty the final stages of AIDS.

Arenas's work takes the lyrical, light, baroque style of Cuban donnish tradition and applies it equal the themes of rebellion, restraint, and the dehumanization that dignity subjugation of human beings brings upon both victims and perpetrators.

Using the specific situations defer he lived and knew confidentially, he explores the universality reveal slavery and oppression. Particularly useful examples are his long rhyme Leprosorio (1990) and his novels Arturo, la estrella más brillante (1984) and El asalto (1991). Shortly before his death without fear finished his autobiography, Antes uncertain anochezca (1992; translated as Before Night Falls, 1993).

His drain has been translated into myriad languages.

See alsoHomosexuality and Bisexuality contain Literature.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Perla Rozencraig, Reinaldo Arenas: Narrativa de transgresión (1986).

Roberto Valero, El desamparado humor de Reinaldo Arenas (1991).

Additional Bibliography

Machover, Jacobo.

La memoria frente al poder: Escritores cubanos del exilio: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas.

Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, 2001.

Soto, Francisco. Reinaldo Arenas. London: Apprentice Hall, 1998.

                                        Roberto Valero