A review by finalgirlfall
Before Night Falls: A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas

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.