Reinaldo Arenas was the cursed visionary of late 20th-century Cuban literature, imprisoned by Castro and shunned by pro-Cuba leftist intellectuals in this country after he came over in the Mariel ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. When we think today about Cuban literature in the United States, especially that originally written in Spanish, Reinaldo Arenas emerges as ...

Before Night Falls is based on the autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas. Reinaldo’s story includes childhood poverty, joining the guerillas in Cuba, imprisonment as a political dissident and a gay ...