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Title	:	Antes Que Anochezca
Author	:	Reinaldo Arenas
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 343 pages
Published	:	January 15th 2011 by TusQuets (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. LGBT. Biography

Antes Que Anochezca Paperback | Pages: 343 pages

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Perhaps the single best memoir I've EVER read, this work of art is excruciating. There is no doubt that everything that occurred to Arenas happened and that here is testament of how the new wave of Cuban writers, lingering between Batista (incited by him and his regime) & entering into the holocaust that is Communist Cuba by Castro, struggled & died. This voice was not extinguished, however.

Arena's life is full of missteps, amazing accomplishments & plenty of sex. He's proud of himself, never apologizes. His nemesis is not himself (most writers are so full of inner demons- Arenas is a rock of certainty and is so self-aware) but Castro. Always effenCastro.

It is sad that after all this, the Plague in NYC finally claims this intelligent, articulate and overly creative man. It seems that all good things come to an end, but that is no reason to dismiss everything that exists in between.

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Original Title:	Antes que anochezca
ISBN:	8483835711 (ISBN13: 9788483835715)
Edition Language:	Spanish
Setting:	Cuba New York State(United States) New York City, New York(United States)

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Very different than the film that was based on it. Early in the book he talks about writing some of his novels in long all night bursts, and that feeling comes through in the writing. It approaches the feeling of manic rambling jumping from thought to thought very quickly. It's also very frank about sex and sexuality. The early parts of this book are about as scandalous as anything I've read. He's wielding his sexuality as a weapon. As though to say "You persecuted me for my sexuality? Well how

Remember when memoirists actually had something to say...?

Absolutely stunningly brilliant, candid memoir. Arenas does an immaculate job, as he would describe it, of screaming against the systems of control (in this case, the so-called communism but really dystopian dictatorship of castro's cuba) which doggedly plagued the author throughout his life. his scream is one of joy, and that joy often abounds from two distinct but sometimes overlapping subjects; sexuality (more explicitly, a hungry homoerotic sexuality) and the sea. these aspects provide the

"...he lived a life whose beginning and end were indeed the same: from the start, one long, sustained sexual act..." says Guillermo Cabrera about Arenas' life. And man oh man, he wasn't kidding. There is so much sex in this book! It makes me think that everyone in Cuba is a sexhound waiting to pounce on each other, only restrained by social mores and/or the repressive government and its forced status quo. there is so much sex, it's funny. In his childhood he's having sex with all these animals

The truth that stems from this book is beautiful. Quite possibly my favorite writer at the moment. Each description is original in thought and placed on paper with no insecurities resting behind his hand. Beautiful, original, honest...a human being that was able to turn his own tragedy and life's struggle into a poetic memoir that should greet the eyes of anyone that considers themselves a true fan of great literature. This book will scare the shit out of you and make you think about Cuba and

A brave, honest and tragic autobiography, in a way demonstrating the persistence of idealism and hope despite the horrors of Castro's Cuba and the brutal disappointments of exile. Quite raw and unpolished, perhaps due to the circumstances in which it was written (he had AIDS), but nevertheless extraordinarily powerful and emotionally affecting.