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  • 30 - The Diasporic Odysseys of Reinaldo Arenas and His Writings

  • from Part IV - The Revolution’s Literary-Cultural Initiatives and Their Early Discontents
  • Edited by Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas, Jacqueline Loss, University of Connecticut
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
    Published online:
    31 August 2024
    Print publication:
    04 July 2024, pp 469-484

  • Summary

    Framing Reinaldo Arenas’s memoir Antes que anochezca [Before Night Falls] as “the best-known Cuban book to have never been published in Cuba,” this chapter explores the relationship to imagination, literary history, desire, pleasure, and death that pervades its author’s entire oeuvre. With readings, along with the memoir, of the fictions Celestino antes del alba (1967), El palacio de las blanquísimas mofetas (1982), Viaje a La Habana: Novela en tres viajes (1990), La loma del Ángel (1987), and El color del verano o nuevo jardín de las delicias (1991) and with allusions to other works, the chapter sees Arenas’s work as successive acts of revenge against all conformity and against all that sought to constrain imaginative freedom. This underscores his importance for individuals and communities composed of queer, dissident, and marginalized individuals in Cuba and worldwide.