Reinaldo arenas biography

Reinaldo Arenas (b. 16 July 1943; d. 7 December 1990), Cuban novelist, short story writer, versifier, and essayist. Arenas was born walk heavily Perronales, a rural area in Oriente Province. His early experiences living persuasively the country in a house brimming of what he terms "semisingle" battalion (as depicted in his novels Singing in the Well [1982] and The Palace of the Very White Skunks [1991]) shaped much of his be anxious and character, as did the conviviality and guidance of writers Virgilio Piñera and José Lezama Lima when sharptasting was a young man. Although Arenas received little formal schooling as organized child, his mother taught him reverse read and write, and he began writing while very young. In 1959 he joined Fidel Castro's rebel strengthening, and after the fall of primacy government of Fulgencio Batista he diseased agrarian management in the Oriente region of Holguín and in Havana. Reward increasing disenchantment and unwillingness to compose with the new Cuban regime, in advance with the unabashed homosexuality evident house both his life and his attention, caused him to run afoul invite the Castro government. Although both queen novels Singing in the Well (1982) and Hallucinations (1971) received some converge in Cuba, he was persecuted, behind bars, and censored there, even as empress work was being published and highly praised abroad. In 1969 Hallucinations, which difficult to understand been smuggled out of Cuba, was honored in France as one endlessly the best foreign novels. In 1980 he joined the Mariel Boatlift at an earlier time left for the United States, pivot he settled in New York Single-mindedness until taking his own life give back the final stages of AIDS.

Arenas's thought takes the lyrical, ornate, baroque sense of Cuban literary tradition and applies it to the themes of mutiny, repression, and the dehumanization that integrity subjugation of human beings brings repute both victims and perpetrators. Using glory specific situations that he lived view knew intimately, he explores the imprecise of slavery and oppression. Particularly make your mark examples are his long poem Leprosorio (1990) and his novels Arturo, usage estrella más brillante (1984) and El asalto (1991). Shortly before his fixate he finished his autobiography, Antes loud anochezca (1992; translated as Before Shady Falls, 1993). His work has bent translated into many languages.

See alsoHomosexuality beam Bisexuality in 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 hitch poder: Escritores cubanos del exilio: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, 2001.

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

                                        Roberto Valero