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Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas

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anarys_b's review

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced

5.0

rebeccawesome's review

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challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

hakberdi's review against another edition

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5.0

Una obra maestra que te atrapa, engancha y no te deja ir hasta que leas “un capítulo más”… Es tan sísmico, de tal magnitud que solo se puede medir con la escala chilena (la cantidad de veces que un chileno dijo “xuxemadre/conchetumare” y “weon” en un minutico), ya que la escala de Richter ni siquiera lo representaría bien.

Topé con este libro al azar: estaba explorando libros de “Tusquets” en Amazon, pues, ví la portada, leí la descripción y pensé: “Uuuuush marica, suena interesante, pero no sé absolutamente nada sobre Cuba

finalgirlfall's review against another edition

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rating omitted due to the fact that the whole work seems to have functioned, in essence, as arenas's suicide-note-cum-manifesto, and i think to rate such a work would be at least a little weird.

i read this book for a class i'm taking this semester on gender and sexuality in latin america. the parts of the memoir that were really graphically sexual that took place before castro came to power seemed stranger and less "normal" to me than the graphically sexual parts that came after after castro's rise to power. blah blah sex and violence and Sexual/ized Violence. what ever.

also, i am rotating the way he talks about the assorted women in this work in my mind.