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Reinaldo Arenas - Before Night Falls Reviews

Reinaldo Arenas - Before Night Falls

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  • Cuba's Inferno and Hedonism

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Apr 8, 2001
    Pros: Documents Cuba's suffering; Disenchantment with the Castro's regime
    Cons: The regime's inability to recognize differences

    Summary: He wanted to live his own lifestyle. He did not want any man to contain him and refrain him from being who he was. Reinaldo Arenas was compelled to leave Cuba just like many of his fellow men and women on the 1980 Mariel boatlift. When he could no ... read more

  • A devastating account of living under Castro

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    Aug 13, 2000
    Pros: Clear prose illuminating life in various hells
    Cons: Some ethnocentrism and inability to try to understand American life

    Summary: By the time he was dicating his memoirs in New York during 1990, as he was dying of AIDS, Reinaldo Arenas had long before exhausted any sympathy for the macho dictatorship that drove him and his friends to early graves.Arenas’s rage against the regime ... read more

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ISBN13: 9780140157659. ISBN10: 0140157654. by Reinaldo Arenas. Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc.. Edition: 93
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