by Reinaldo Arenas · Stock · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234051973
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«L'Assaut» is the dystopian novel by Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, published by Stock in 2000 in paperback (175 pages, in French).
A ferocious allegory against the Cuban dictatorship: in a world of clawed beings who do not speak, a regime of total surveillance oppresses victims who are in turn executioners. The protagonist seeks his mother, who turns out to be also the tyrant, to kill her; the fable blends the sarcasm of Kafka and Orwell with a current of compassion.
Fifth installment of the «Pentagonía», Reinaldo Arenas's narrative series. The French translation is by Liliane Hasson; the Spanish original, «El asalto», was published in 1990.
For readers of dystopian literature and political allegory, akin to Kafka and Orwell or interested in Cuban exile narrative.
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.
