by Reinaldo Arenas · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422678359
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«Antes que anochezca» is the autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas, published by Círculo de Lectores in 2001 in paperback (343 pages, in Spanish).
In this autobiography, Reinaldo Arenas reviews his childhood in rural Cuba, his involvement with the Castro revolution, and his life as a homosexual writer persecuted by the regime. He recounts his imprisonment, exile in New York, and the illness that led him to suicide, a personal and political testimony of dissident Cuba.
Work originally published in 1992; nominated for the 1993 Lambda Literary Award in the gay biography/autobiography category.
For readers of memoirs and Cuban literature seeking a testimony on political repression and homosexuality.
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.
