Arturo, the Most Brilliant Star (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Reinaldo Arenas
- First Published: 1984
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, Prisoners, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Violence, Oppression, Fantasy, Imagination, Cuba or Cubans, Loneliness, Latin America or Latin Americans, Labor camps
The Work
Reinaldo Arenas’ commitment to resist and denounce Cuba’s indoctrination practices is evident in his short novel Arturo, the Most Brilliant Star. This work is also significant in that Arenas links his political views on the Cuban Revolution with his increasing interest in gay characters. The plot was inspired by a series of police raids against homosexuals in Havana in the early 1960’s. The process was simple: The police picked up thousands of men, usually young men, and denounced them as homosexuals on the grounds of their wearing certain pieces of...
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