Talk:Reinaldo Arenas

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This is written in Spanish. Is on his short story, "With Eyes Closed" or Con los Ojos Cerrados.
 * El tema es la ceguera voluntaria de alguna gente que no acepta lo imprevisible. Hay quien tiene ojos y no quiere ver, quien tiene oidos y no escucha, es como el que clama en el desierto. Esto es la historia de un nino que va creciendo y mira la vida con imaginacion, porque desea ver cosas que no ocurren pero cuando juega a ser ciego a la realidad, un automovil lo atropella.  La realidad puede ser magica, como Gabriel Garcia Marquez nos ensena en sus libros.  El nino no se habia dado cuenta que las mujeres ancianas eran las duenas de la dulceria y que ellas solo querian ayudar al nino en su juego de crecer.  El nino ve a unos ninos matando una rata pero cuando mira con los ojos cerrados hacia dentro, hacia su alma de nino, lo que ocurre es todo lo contrario. No hay que matar al nino interior que tiene buena intencion.  El nino interior posee buenos propositos, salvar vidas, compartir el pan, aunque el precio sea la rotura de sus piernas.

Aunque la realidad no nos lleve a ese realismo magico de los suenos. Esta historia o cuento aparecio publicada en la Antologia CUENTOS CUBANOS, de LAIAB, Barcelona, 1979.

C.R. Font. Agosto, 2004.

Cleanup needed
I have added a list of his works. And will get back and expand the rest of the article as I have time.Franklin Moore 04:32, 9 February 2006 (UTC) I did some major revisions of the text and tried to provide a bit more detail and references. The writings section needs to be expanded. If anyone is game, go for it. If not; I'll be back in a week and will expand upon it. Franklin Moore 05:14, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I have added a new article Pentagonia which covers that collection of his writings, and will return to improve this article with a more detailed description of his other works. Franklin Moore 06:48, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Photo
Does anyone have access to a photo of Arenas that can be uploaded? There is a jacket photo that appears on most of his novels, which I have, but I am unsure as to the copyright issues involved with it. So if anyone has a photo, or knows if such jacket photos are licensed for reproduction, let me know, or up laod it to the site. Thanks Franklin Moore 17:43, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Well I am gonna contact a friend of mine who is Cuban that show me once a picture of Reynaldo. I would try to find him soon.

/// The photo illustrating this article is not of Arenas. It's Elliot Madore in the role of Arenas. Shouldn't this photo be taken down of Arenas's page? Geraud86 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:10, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Expansion

 * There needs to be more information about his ideological struggle with the Castroite bureaucracy installed at UNEAC-and subsequently, his inability to find work, an apartment, etc.-the reasons behind his persecution-which were only partially related to his unabashed homosexuality-and most importantly-and this is something that seems to be entirely absent from this article-his public confrontation with the Castro regime, especially after he was given asylum along with the Marielitos and began to speak out on American soil.


 * There also doesn't seem to be any discussion of the concerted effort among the literary community to ostracize him for his vehemently anti-Communist views, or his ambivalent attitude towards the United States. Or, for that matter, his strained relationship with former friends turned informers.

Ruthfulbarbarity 20:07, 3 August 2006 (UTC)