Before Night Falls

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Arenas, Reinaldo/ Koch, Dolores M. (Trn) 저자(글)

Penguin Publishing Group · 1994년 10월 01일

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Reinaldo Arenas was born in Cuba in 1943. In 1980, he was one of 120,000 Cubans who arrived in the United States on the Mariel boatlift. Arenas settled in New York where he lived until his death from AIDS ten years later.
The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his supression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. In what The Miami Herald calls his "deathbed ode to eroticism," Arenas breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime. Recorded in simple, straightforward prose, this is the true story of the Kafkaesque life and world re-created in the author's acclaimed novels.
This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge from Castro's Cuba recounts Arenas' stunning odyssey--from his poverty-stricken childhood through his suppression as a writer and imprisonment as a homosexual to his flight to America and subsequent life and death in New York. A New York Times Best Book of 1993.

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저자(글) Arenas, Reinaldo/ Koch, Dolores M. (Trn)

목차

• Introduction: the End	p. ix
  The Stones	p. 1
  The Grove	p. 5
  The River	p. 8
  School	p. 9
  The Temple of the Spirits	p. 12
  The Well	p. 13
  Christmas Eve	p. 14
  The Harvest	p. 15
  The Downpour	p. 16
  The Spectacle	p. 17
  Eroticism	p. 18
  Violence	p. 20
  The Morning Fog	p. 22
  The Night, My Grandmother	p. 22
  The Earth	p. 26
  The Sea	p. 28
  Politics	p. 28
  Holguin	p. 32
  The Rub Pub	p. 35
  Christmas	p. 38
  Rebel	p. 40
  The Revolution	p. 45
  A Student	p. 47
  Havana	p. 51
  Fidel Castro	p. 53
  Hymns	p. 54
  The Fire	p. 57
  Theatrics and the Chicken Farm	p. 59
  Raul	p. 62
  Good-Bye to the Chicken Farm	p. 65
  The Library	p. 71
  The Cuban Book Institute	p. 77
  The Four Categories of Gays	p. 77
  Virgilio Pinera	p. 79
  Lezama Lima	p. 83
  My Generation	p. 88
  A Trip	p. 91
  Eroticism	p. 93
  Jorge and Margarita	p. 116
  Santa Marica (Saint Queer)	p. 119
  The Abreu Brothers	p. 123
  Super-Stalinism	p. 124
  The Sugar Mill	p. 128
  Olga Andreu	p. 134
  The Padilla "Case"	p. 136
  A Trip to Holguin	p. 142
  Nelson Rodriguez	p. 147
  The Wedding	p. 150
  The Arrest	p. 154
  The Flight	p. 158
  The Capture	p. 175
  Prison	p. 177
  Villa Marista	p. 201
  Again at el Morro	p. 207
  An "Open" Jail	p. 217
  Out on the Street	p. 224
  The Monserrate Hotel	p. 239
  Good-Bye to Virgilio	p. 273
  Mariel	p. 276
  Key West	p. 285
  Miami	p. 287
  Exile	p. 288
  Witches	p. 294
  Mariel Magazine	p. 298
  Travels	p. 302
  Madness	p. 307
  The Eviction	p. 309
  The Announcement	p. 310
  Dreams	p. 311
  Farewell	p. 317
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기본정보

ISBN	9780140157659 ( 0140157654 )
발행(출시)일자	1994년 10월 01일
쪽수	336쪽
크기	129 * 197 * 18 mm / 236 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어