Reinaldo Arenas nace el 16 de julio de en Aguas Claras, Cuba. Abandonado por su padre cuando apenas tiene unos meses, Reinaldo y su madre se van a vivir a la finca familiar de sus abuelos, en el campo. Pese a que la situación económica de la familia no es buena y que tanto él como su madre pasan hambre y privaciones, Reinaldo recordará su infancia como un periodo de absoluta libertad. Motivado por las historias de su abuela y por la naturaleza circundante, su niñez es un momento de gran estimulación creativa, indispensable para su formación literaria ulterior. Además, durante sus primeros años, Arenas advierte sus preferencias homosexuales.
Luego del golpe de Estado dirigido por Fulgencio Batista en , la situación económica de su familia empeora aún más, por lo que los abuelos de Reinaldo deciden vender la finca y mudarse a una pequeña casa en Holguín. Siendo aún pequeño, Reinaldo comienza a trabajar en una fábrica de dulce de guayaba, mientras asiste a la escuela primaria. Con los años, la precariedad en la que vive le hace tomar la decisión de sumarse a las tropas rebeldes de Fidel Castro, que para entonces se organizan clandestinamente para quitar al dictador Fulgencio Batis
Arenas, Reinaldo: Cuban Writer
Viciously oppressed in his native Cuba for both his literary attacks on Fidel Castro's revolution and his open homosexuality, Reinaldo Arenas became a literary star by smuggling his books overseas. His extraordinary novels, flush with magical realism and sensual detail, won several prestigious awards abroad. Interview magazine wrote, "[Arenas's] writing is so exquisitely evocative and truthful and free it's as though his words have wings that could take him&#x;artistically, sexually, and even politically&#x;anywhere on a physical or emotional level." Yet, under the totalitarian regime of Communist Cuba, Arenas couldn't travel anywhere. For twenty years he endured harassment, surveillance, and imprisonment. Arenas finally escaped to New York in
By the time of his death in , Arenas had completed nine novels, an autobiography, scores of poems, plays, and short stories, as well as dozens of political and literary essays. However, he had long-since gone out of literary favor. As he noted in his autobiography, Before Night Falls, "Ironically, while I was in jail and could not leave Cuba, my chances of being published were better because I was no
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Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban writer and poet who rebelled against Fidel Castro’s Cuban government and fled to the US
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Reinaldo Arenas, a writer and poet, spent several years in prison during Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba. Born and raised in the era of the Cuban Revolution, Arenas joined Castro’s revolutionary rebellion group as a teenager, but went against the regime after they began prosecuting homosexuals. He became one of the most influential figures after he openly opposed Fidel Castro’s regime and participated in numerous anti-Castro public debates during his exile in the US. An avid and untiring political activist, he fought for the rights of Cuban writers who were marginalised by the Cuban government. As his writings became increasingly critical of the government, he was not allowed to publish his works in Cuba. By the time of his death, nine of his novels, an autobiography, collection of poems, plays, short stories, and a number of political and literary essays, were published
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The Best Poem Of Reinaldo Arenas
My Lover The Sea
I am that child with the round, dirty face
who on every corner bothers you with his
"can you spare a quarter?"
I am that child with the dirty face
no doubt unwanted
that from far away contemplates coaches
where other children
emit laughter and jump up and down considerably
I am that unlikeable child
definitely unwanted
with the round dirty face
who before the giant street lights or
under the grandames also illuminated
or in front of the little girls that seem to levitate
projects the insult of his dirty face
I am that angry and lonely child of always,
that throws you the insult of that angry child of always
and warns you:
if hypocritically you pat me on the head
I would take that opportunity to steal your wallet.
I am that child of always
before the panorama of imminent terror,
imminent leprosy, imminent fleas,
of offenses and the imminent crime.
I am that repulsive child that improvises a bed
out of an old cardboard box and waits,
certain that you will accompany me.
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