Termina el desfile (Nueva narrativa hispánica) (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Arenas, Reinaldo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8432213950 ISBN 13: 9788432213953

Publisher: Seix Barral, 1981

Synopsis

Arenas, Reinaldo. Termina el desfile. Barcelona Seix Barral, 1981. Octavo. 174 pages. Softcover. First edition thus, adding the title story to the contents of the collection published without authorization in Uruguay in 1972, Con los ojos cerrados. Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 - December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for Fidel Castro and the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government. Despite his short life and the hardships imposed during his imprisonment, Arenas produced a significant body of work. In addition to significant poetic efforts (El Central, Leprosorio), his Pentagonia is a set of five novels that comprise a secret history of post-revolutionary Cuba. It includes Singing from the Well (in Spanish also titled Celestino before Dawn), Farewell to the Sea (whose literal translation is The Sea Once More), Palace of the White Skunks, the Rabelaisian Color of Summer, and The Assault. In these novels Arenas' style ranges from a stark realist narrative and high modernist experimental prose to absurd, satiric humor. His second novel, Hallucinations (El Mundo Alucinante), rewrites the story of the colonial dissident priest Fray Servando Teresa de Mier. In interviews, his autobiography, and in some of his fiction work itself, Arenas draws explicit connections between his own life experience and the identities and fates of his protagonists. As is evident and as critics such as Francisco Soto have pointed out, the child narrator in Celestino, Fortunato of The Palace..., Hector of Farewell.., and the triply named Gabriel/Reinaldo/Gloomy Skunk character in Color appear to live progressive stages of a continuous life story that is also linked to Arenas's own.[7] In turn, Arenas consistently links his individual narrated life to the historical experience of a generation of Cubans. A constant theme in his novels and other ..

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Text: Spanish

About this edition

• Publisher: Seix Barral
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 8432213950
• ISBN 13: 9788432213953
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174