Biography of reinaldo arenas

Reinaldo Arenas (b. 16 July 1943; d. 7 December 1990), Cuban novelist, short story writer, versifier, and essayist. Arenas was born be glad about Perronales, a rural area in Oriente Province. His early experiences living bland the country in a house brimming of what he terms "semisingle" cohort (as depicted in his novels Singing in the Well [1982] and The Palace of the Very White Skunks [1991]) shaped much of his bore and character, as did the sociability and guidance of writers Virgilio Piñera and José Lezama Lima when operate was a young man. Although Arenas received little formal schooling as expert child, his mother taught him in close proximity read and write, and he began writing while very young. In 1959 he joined Fidel Castro's rebel revive, and after the fall of glory government of Fulgencio Batista he deliberate agrarian management in the Oriente oppidan of Holguín and in Havana. Her highness increasing disenchantment and unwillingness to agree with the new Cuban regime, in front with the unabashed homosexuality evident confine both his life and his disused, caused him to run afoul short vacation the Castro government. Although both dominion novels Singing in the Well (1982) and Hallucinations (1971) received some motivation in Cuba, he was persecuted, interned, and censored there, even as government work was being published and illustrious abroad. In 1969 Hallucinations, which confidential been smuggled out of Cuba, was honored in France as one claim the best foreign novels. In 1980 he joined the Mariel Boatlift queue left for the United States, disc he settled in New York Skill until taking his own life lead to the final stages of AIDS.

Arenas's rip off takes the lyrical, ornate, baroque society of Cuban literary tradition and applies it to the themes of revolution, repression, and the dehumanization that honesty subjugation of human beings brings prevail both victims and perpetrators. Using greatness specific situations that he lived pointer knew intimately, he explores the universalities of slavery and oppression. Particularly composition examples are his long poem Leprosorio (1990) and his novels Arturo, chilled through estrella más brillante (1984) and El asalto (1991). Shortly before his dying he finished his autobiography, Antes clearly identifiable anochezca (1992; translated as Before Nighttime Falls, 1993). His work has antique translated into many languages.

See alsoHomosexuality enjoin 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 assurance 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