by Reinaldo Arenas · Le Serpent à plumes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782908957105
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«Adiós a Mamá» is the collection of eight short stories by Reinaldo Arenas, published by Le Serpent à plumes in paperback (149 pages, in French).
The volume brings together eight short stories written by Reinaldo Arenas between 1963 and 1987 in Havana, Miami and New York. Fidel Castro's Cuba appears as an environment of surveillance, denunciation and repression; the prose combines harshness and lyricism in reflecting Arenas's persecution and the struggle for freedom.
French edition translated from the Spanish (Cuba) by Liliane Hasson, with an afterword by Juan Abreu. Published in 1993.
For readers of Cuban exile literature and short fiction with a political backdrop: Arenas's persecution gives context to these stories.
Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who is known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a political prisoner, Before Night Falls, was dictated after his escape to the United States during the 1980 Mariel boatlift and published posthumously. Arenas, who was dying of AIDS, killed himself in 1990.
