by Reinaldo Arenas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788411071949
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Before Night Falls is an autobiography by Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, published in 1992. In it, Arenas recounts his life from his childhood in rural Cuba to his exile in New York and his struggle against AIDS. The work is a moving testimony to the life of a dissident writer in a totalitarian regime, as well as a reflection on freedom, identity, and the human condition.
Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who is known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a political prisoner, Before Night Falls, was dictated after his escape to the United States during the 1980 Mariel boatlift and published posthumously. Arenas, who was dying of AIDS, killed himself in 1990.
