Reinaldo Arenas was the cursed visionary of late 20th-century Cuban literature, imprisoned by Castro and shunned by pro-Cuba leftist intellectuals in this country after he came over in the Mariel ...
Today, Penguin Classics published five fiction and nonfiction books in their Penguin Vitae series, a collection of updated classics in elegant hardcover editions with colored endpapers and foil ...
The spring of his last year alive, the writer Reinaldo Arenas cockily told the El Nuevo Herald, The Miami Herald’s Spanish-language sister paper, “My death will make my works all that more popular ...
Work, copulation and death. And, please, as little copulation as possible because it interferes with work and dying. That is a succinct summation of the ethos of the never specifically named society ...
Arenas was born into poverty in the Cuban countryside. He wrote his first poems by carving words into tree trunks. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the ...
Javier Bardem as Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. Born in 1943 to a desperately poor family in the town of Holguin, Arenas was a teenager when Castro’s rebels overthrew the Batista dictatorship. Already ...
Calvin Griffin (L) as Revolutionary official Victor and Elliot Madore (R), as Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas in Florida Grand Opera's production of “Before Night Falls.”";s: Over 17 years ago, the ...
On December 7, 1990, Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas ended his life. Forced into exile because of his political dissidence, and dying slowly of AIDS, he could no longer withstand the physical ...
On February 5, 2017, Florida Grand Opera (FGO), in partnership with the Florida International University Cuban Research Institute (FIU CRI) presents "Community Conversations: Reflections on the Life ...
Soprano Elizabeth Caballero recalls feeling elated when she boarded the Mariel boatlift in 1980. Then 6 years old, she believed her father’s lie that they were visiting her aunt in Miami, not ...
I have been running away from the communists ever since I was 12 and read, during that summer of 1956 in Patchogue, N.Y., “Escape from the Soviets” by Tatiana Tchernavin. Then I was in flight in my ...
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