by Reinaldo Arenas · Actes Sud · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742730964
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«Avant la nuit» is the autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas, published by Actes Sud in paperback (448 pages, in French).
Autobiography in which Arenas traces his life from childhood in rural Cuba to exile in New York, marked by his opposition to the Castro regime and by prison and labour camps. The narrative combines testimony and literature, and its pages feature the search for beauty, the moon, the sea and a free sexuality as a form of resistance.
Translation from Spanish (Cuba) by Liliane Hasson, in the Babel collection of Actes Sud (published in 2000). Julian Schnabel's adaptation won the Grand Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
For readers of autobiographical literature and testimonies about political repression in Castro's Cuba.
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.
