Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas

5 reviews

toroyaguila's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative reflective tense medium-paced

3.0

Como testimonio de un hombre homosexual en la Cuba castrista me parece muy valioso: hay lujo de detalles de toda la represión brutal de la homofobia de estado. Me deja dudando la falta de matiz del autor sobre las mujeres lesbianas (muy poco mencionadas) y su tendencia a la caricatura de casi todas las personas que le rodean, menos de unos cuantos muy contados.
Y hay un punto en donde parece mentir (y esta no es una novela): la inmensa cantidad de sus encuentros sexuales y las condiciones de muchísimas anecdotas sexuales del autor y de sus conocidos (algunas, muy grotescas).
Para mí lo más valioso de haber escuchado esta autobiografía fue tener una idea sobre sus procesos de escritura en regímenes autoritarios, represivos y conservadores.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Murder, and Pedophilia

bookiemadi's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Incest, and Sexual content

Moderate: Torture, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

nessiemonster's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.0

Eu não sei. O senhor parece ser extremamente culto, interessante e corajoso. Tendo dito isso, achei bastante estranho a quantidade de sexo descrito no livro. Also, não sei se quero andar de autocarro em Cuba e estou perturbada pela vida sexual do Reinaldo durante a sua infância. Ha. Ha. :S

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Incest, Homophobia, and Animal cruelty

rocksonbrocks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Incest, Police brutality, Suicide, Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Mental illness, and Death

joceraptor's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

there is pretty much every trigger/content warning imaginable in here. the only one that immediately comes to mind and i don't see here is bestiality, which is also pretty early on. check the section below for the rest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Transphobia

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Medical content, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, and Toxic friendship