Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading mona and other tales vintage international. Download becoming reinaldo arenas ebook for free in pdf and epub format. Read becoming reinaldo arenas online, read in mobile or kindle. Other books by arenas include the palace of the white skunks 1990, the color of summer 1990, the doorman 1991, the assault 1992, before night falls 1993, old rosa 1995, and mono and other tales 2001. Mona and other tales vintage international kindle edition. Oddly alienated from the tenants, juan finds himself being seduced by their. Before night falls, the autobiography of cuban writer reinaldo arenas, is an astonishing book. The main character, juan, fled cuba by boat ten years ago and is now a doorman at a ritzy apartment building in new york. The book has been translated into english by dolores m. The doorman, by reinaldo arenas, is a marvelous novel by one of cubas literary greats. In before night falls, arenas recounts his journey from a povertystricken childhood in rural cuba to his death in new york four decades later.
The color of summer, arenas s finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his lifes work, the. By the time of his death in new york four decades later, he had become one of cubas most important poets, an outspoken critic of castros regime and one of the leading gay voices of the twentieth century. Oddly alienated from the tenants, he is seduced by their pets, who are determined to revolt against humans and human society. In before night falls, arenas tells of his odyssey from young rebel fighting for the revolution, through his suppression.
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Reinaldo arenas was born to a povertystricken family in rural cuba. Were told on the first pages that he is dying of grief, partly at the loss of his home country, but also because he could not or would not adjust to this practical world. Reinaldo arenas, cubanborn writer of extraordinary and unconventional novels who fled persecution and immigrated to the united states. It was during the watching of this movie that i remembered i had in my library, unread, arenas last book and the only one set in the unted states. In the doorman arenas tells the story of juan, a cuban refugee who takes a job as a doorman in a new york city apartment building. Publication date 1991 topics cubans new york state. His extraordinary memoir, before night falls, was named one of the fourteen best books of 1993.
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