by Reinaldo Arenas · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472234857
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«Antes que anochezca» is the autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback, 352 pages, in Spanish.
Reinaldo Arenas reviews his life from a peasant childhood in rural Cuba to his definitive exile in New York. The account addresses his initial support for the Castro revolution, his disillusionment with the regime, persecution for being a writer and homosexual, prison, and his departure from Cuba in the Mariel boatlift.
Work number 165 in the Andanzas collection from Tusquets Editores. Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990) was a Cuban writer; the first edition was published in 1992.
For readers of memoirs and Cuban literature: political dissent and repression based on sexual orientation in Castro's Cuba.
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.
