Research Catalog

Title

Before night falls / Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Dolores M. Koch.

Author

Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990.

Publication

• New York : Penguin Books, 1994.
• ©1993

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Details

Additional Authors

Koch, Dolores M. (Dolores Mercedes), 1928-2009

Description

xvii, 317 pages; 20 cm

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Antes que anochezca. English

Alternative Title

Antes que anochezca.

Subject

• Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990
• Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990
• 1900-1999
• Authors, Cuban > 20th century > Biography
• Authors, Cuban

Genre/Form

• autobiographies (literary works)
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Note

• Cover art copyright, 2000.

Contents

The stones -- The grove -- The river -- School -- The temple of the spirits -- The well -- Christmas Eve -- The harvest -- The downpour -- The spectacle -- Eroticism -- Violence -- The morning fog -- The night, my grandmother -- The earth -- The sea -- Politics -- Holguin -- The rub pub -- Christmas -- Rebel -- The Revolution -- A student -- Havana -- Fidel Castro -- Hymns -- The fire -- Theatrics and the chicken farm -- Raul -- Good-bye to the chicken farm -- The library -- The Cuban Book Institute -- The four categories of gays -- Virgilio Pinera -- Lezama Lima -- My generation -- A trip -- Eroticism -- Jorge and Margarita -- Santa Marica (Saint Queer) -- The Abreu brothers -- Super-Stalinism -- The sugar mill -- Olga Andreu -- The Padilla "case" -- A trip to Holguin -- Nelson Rodriguez -- The wedding -- The arrest -- The flight -- The capture -- Prison -- Villa Marista -- Again at El Morro -- An "open" jail -- Out on the street -- The Monserrate Hotel -- Good-bye to Virgilio -- Mariel -- Key West -- Miami -- Exile -- Witches -- "Mariel" Magazine -- Travels -- Madness -- The eviction -- The announcement -- Dreams -- Farewell.

ISBN

• 0140157654
• 9780140157659

LCCN

92046264

OCLC

• ocm31741866
• 31741866
• SCSB-9495663

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library