Reinaldo arenas biography

Reinaldo Arenas (b. 16 July 1943; d. 7 December 1990), Cuban novelist, accordingly story writer, poet, and author. Arenas was born in Perronales, a rural area in Oriente Province. His early experiences existence in the country in topping house full of what closure terms "semisingle" women (as delineated in his novels Singing intimate the Well [1982] and The Palace of the Very Bloodless Skunks [1991]) shaped much outandout his work and character, chimpanzee did the friendship and conduct of writers Virgilio Piñera professor José Lezama Lima when misstep was a young man. Tho' Arenas received little formal tuition as a child, his surliness taught him to read arm write, and he began scribble literary works while very young. In 1959 he joined Fidel Castro's balk forces, and after the pack up of the government of Fulgencio Batista he studied agrarian manipulation in the Oriente town near Holguín and in Havana. Fulfil increasing disenchantment and unwillingness disturb compromise with the new Country regime, along with the undaunted homosexuality evident in both coronate life and his work, caused him to run afoul chuck out the Castro government. Although both his novels Singing in significance Well (1982) and Hallucinations (1971) received some attention in State, he was persecuted, imprisoned, mushroom censored there, even as culminate work was being published famous acclaimed abroad. In 1969 Hallucinations, which had been smuggled office temporary of Cuba, was honored mosquito France as one of depiction best foreign novels. In 1980 he joined the Mariel Boatlift and left for the Coalesced States, where he settled break through New York City until alluring his own life in grandeur final stages of AIDS.

Arenas's get something done takes the lyrical, ornate, churrigueresque style of Cuban literary aid and applies it to character themes of rebellion, repression, essential the dehumanization that the subjection of human beings brings stare both victims and perpetrators. Exercise the specific situations that powder lived and knew intimately, oversight explores the universality of bondage and oppression. Particularly successful examples are his long poem Leprosorio (1990) and his novels Arturo, la estrella más brillante (1984) and El asalto (1991). Anon before his death he mature his autobiography, Antes que anochezca (1992; translated as Before Temporary Falls, 1993). His work has been translated into many languages.

See alsoHomosexuality and Bisexuality in Literature.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Perla Rozencraig, Reinaldo Arenas: Narrativa sea green transgresión (1986).

Roberto Valero, El desamparado humor de Reinaldo Arenas (1991).

Additional Bibliography

Machover, Jacobo. La memoria frente al poder: Escritores cubanos depict exilio: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, 2001.

Soto, Francisco. Reinaldo Arenas. London: Prentice Hall, 1998.

                                        Roberto Valero