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"Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul."
- Shneur Zalman
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ZIN Product Number: 10025061
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Penguin USA
ISBN: 0140157654
Release Date: Jan 1, 1985
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This is an autobiography by the Cuban writer, author of Hallucination, Farewell to the Sea, and The Palace of the White Skunks.
| | | | From The Publisher
In Before Night Falls, Arenas recounts his journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba to his death in New York four decades later. In between he tells of his odyssey from adolescent rebel fighting for the Revolution, through his suppression as a writer, his disillusionment with Castro, his imprisonment and torture, and his eventual flight from Cuba. Before Night Falls illuminates the importance of Arenas' life as a symbol of the individual against society and of the potential for art to liberate, and confirms the power of the outcast to see and record the truth. In distilled and powerful language, Before Night Falls tells Arenas' own story -- a Kafkaesque life re-created in his highly acclaimed novels.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
The Lifeblood and Voice of Hidden Generations
-- A reviewer, a romantic on my way to discovery, November 16, 2001
Also Recommended: Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman
A great shocker
-- Cuban Dissident, July 18, 2002
Also Recommended: Quentin Cain's 'Notes from the 'G' Spot.... Steinbeck.... Capote
The Promise Of Nothing
-- Michael Layton, August 15, 2001
Also Recommended: The Color Of Summer
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
One of the most shattering testimonials ever written…on the subject of oppression and defiance.
—(Mario Vargas Llosa) —Mario Vargas Llosa
| |  | | | | Introduction: the End | ix | | The Stones | 1 | | The Grove | 5 | | The River | 8 | | School | 9 | | The Temple of the Spirits | 12 | | The Well | 13 | | Christmas Eve | 14 | | The Harvest | 15 | | The Downpour | 16 | | The Spectacle | 17 | | Eroticism | 18 | | Violence | 20 | | The Morning Fog | 22 | | The Night, My Grandmother | 22 | | The Earth | 26 | | The Sea | 28 | | Politics | 28 | | Holguin | 32 | | The Rub Pub | 35 | | Christmas | 38 | | Rebel | 40 | | The Revolution | 45 | | A Student | 47 | | Havana | 51 | | Fidel Castro | 53 | | Hymns | 54 | | The Fire | 57 | | Theatrics and the Chicken Farm | 59 | | Raul | 62 | | Good-Bye to the Chicken Farm | 65 | | The Library | 71 | | The Cuban Book Institute | 77 | | The Four Categories of Gays | 77 | | Virgilio Pinera | 79 | | Lezama Lima | 83 | | My Generation | 88 | | A Trip | 91 | | Eroticism | 93 | | Jorge and Margarita | 116 | | Santa Marica (Saint Queer) | 119 | The Abreu Brothers | 123 | | Super-Stalinism | 124 | | The Sugar Mill | 128 | | Olga Andreu | 134 | | The Padilla "Case" | 136 | | A Trip to Holguin | 142 | | Nelson Rodriguez | 147 | | The Wedding | 150 | | The Arrest | 154 | | The Flight | 158 | | The Capture | 175 | | Prison | 177 | | Villa Marista | 201 | | Again at el Morro | 207 | | An "Open" Jail | 217 | | Out on the Street | 224 | | The Monserrate Hotel | 239 | | Good-Bye to Virgilio | 273 | | Mariel | 276 | | Key West | 285 | | Miami | 287 | | Exile | 288 | | Witches | 294 | | Mariel Magazine | 298 | | Travels | 302 | | Madness | 307 | | The Eviction | 309 | | The Announcement | 310 | | Dreams | 311 | | Farewell | 317 |
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| | | | | | Keywords
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