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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( A ) : Arenas, Reinaldo
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While most think of Cuba as a mythical island of rum, rumba, and revolution, period photographs reveal a more complex place. I Was Cuba is an original look at Cuban history as seen through the Ramiro Fernandez Collection arguably the world's leading archive of Cuban photos and ephemera. I Was Cuba showcases rare, vernacular images from the nineteenth century through the revolutionary period, exploring the everyday and the eccentric. With texts from famed Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (Before Night Falls), this captivating volume is an intimate view into a bygone era of glamour, political upheaval, and astounding visual culture.
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The Cuban-born novelist describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba, his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, his suppression as a writer, his imprisonment for his homosexuality, and his flight from Cuba. 10,000 first printing.
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This first novel in Arenas's "secret history of Cuba"-- a quintet he called the Pentagonia--is a powerful story of growing up in a world where nightmare has become reality, and fantasy provides the only escape.
"One of the most beautiful novels ever written about childhood, adolescence, and life in Cuba." --Carlos Fuentes
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In this apocalyptic vision of Castro's Cuba, a young couple leave the dreariness of Havana and spend six days at a small seaside retreat, where they hope to recapture the desire and carefree spirit that once united them. Reinaldo Arenas is the author of "Before the Night Falls".
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Arenas’s first work set in the United States breaks new ground with the story of a young Cuban refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury apartment building. Oddly alienated from the tenants, he is seduced by their pets, who are determined to revolt against humans and human society.
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The second novel in the Pentagonia, this is a phantasmagoric novel of adolescent rebellion and political revolution.
"A beautiful, heartfelt book by a passionate and epic writer at the height of his powers." --Oscar Hijuelos
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Mona and Other Tales covers Reinaldo Arenas's entire career: his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exile. Many of the stories have not previously appeared in English.
Here is the tender story of a boy who recognizes evil for the first time and decides to ignore it; the tale of a writer struggling between the demands of creativity and of fame; common people dealing with changes brought about by revolution and exile; a romp with a famous, dangerous woman in the Metropolitan Museum; an outrageous fantasy that picks up where Garcia Lorca's famous play The House of Bernardo Alba ends. Told with Arenas's famous wit and humanity, Mona makes a perfect introduction to this important writer.
Translated from the Spanish by Dolores Koch.
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Juan, después de fracasar en diferentes trabajos, consigue un puesto como portero en un rascacielos de Manhattan. Allí, obsesionado con abrirles a los inquilinos la puerta no sólo del edificio sino también la de «la verdadera felicidad», topará con una extravagante galería de personajes, entre otros: Roy Friedman, de sesenta y cinco años, obsesionado con regalar caramelos a diestro y siniestro; Brenda Hill, «mujer algo descocada, soltera y ligeramente alcohólica».....Al final, Juan sólo logra entenderse con las mascotas de los inquilinos del edificio, y con ellas emprenderá un viaje sin retorno.
Written in New York between 1984 and 1986, this is the story of Juan, who starts working as a doorman in Manhattan after having failed at various jobs, to discover that given the extravagant gallery of characters populating the building, he can only really understand their pets.
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In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, Hallucinations is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando-priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunderstood prophet, prisoner, and consummate escape artist-wanders among the vice-ridden populations of eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, fleeing dungeons, a marriage-minded female, a slaveship captain, and the Inquisition. Whether by burro, by boat, or by the back of a whale, Fray Servando's journey is at once funny and romantic, melancholy and profound-a tale rooted in history, yet outrageously hallucinatory.
"An impenitent amalgam of truth and invention, historical fact and outrageous make-believe. . . . A philosophical black comedy." (The New York Times)
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"Critics worldwide have praised Reinaldo Arenas's writing. His extraordinary memoir, Before Night Falls, was named one of the fourteen "Best Books of 1993" by the editors of The New York Times Book Review and has now been made into a major motion picture. The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagon -- a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate installment in his "secret history of Cuba," it was, in fact, the last book Arenas wrote before his death in 1990. A Rabelaisian tale of survival by wits and wit, The Color of Summer is ultimately a powerful and passionate story about the triumph of the human spirit over the forces of political and sexual repression."
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A passionate, epic writer, the author of Before Night Falls, concludes his five-novel sequence--a "secret history of Cuba" and a writer's autobiography--with this allegorical satire. Arenas paints a harrowing yet boldly entertaining Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people and the despair of an observer/narrator clinging to sanity.
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Dividida en dos partes, Otra vez el mar tiene como protagonista a un joven matrimonio que consigue un permiso para pasar unos dÃas en un lugar de veraneo. La narración transita mediante dos voces. La primera es la de una mujer anónima, temerosa de perder a su marido, Héctor, frustrada por la carga de la maternidad e incapaz de soportar la sociedad cubana bajo el sistema comunista. Sus pensamientos, entrelazados con lo cotidiano, revelan su tormento y el doloroso amor que siente por su marido, de quien sospecha que le es infiel, sobre todo cuando un hermoso y taciturno adolescente se instala con su locuaz madre en el apartamento contiguo. En la segunda parte es la voz de Héctor, poeta y revolucionario desencantado, la que de una forma alegórica nos habla de la vida cubana y de sà mismo. Arenas expresa asà las frustraciones y la añoranza de la libertad de esos dos seres y, página a página, ilumina al lector en el laberinto de insatisfacciones y anhelos de la pareja.
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A terrifying and beautiful novel, Old Rosa is composed of two stories that converge on a single charged point in the lives of a Cuban mother and son. In the first, the mother finds her son in bed with another boy; in the second, the son is imprisoned in one of Castro’s camps for homosexuals.
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