The Palace of the White Skunks (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Reinaldo Arenas
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Plot: Family
- Time of Work: The late 1950’s
- Setting: Holguín, a small provincial town in the rural Oriente province of Cuba
- Principal Characters: Fortunato, Polo, Jacinta, Celia, Digna, Adolfina, Onerica
- Genres: Long fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, Dictators, Revolutionaries, Police, Authors or writers, Revolutions, Poverty or poor people, Cuba or Cubans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Historiography
- Locales: Cuba, Oriente province, Cuba
The Novel
The Palace of the White Skunks is a stylistically rich experimental novel that tells of the desolation, despair, and vicissitudes of a Cuban family prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution. The novel, which deliberately and systematically undermines the conventions of the realistic novel tradition, is centered on Fortunato, a sensitive and restless young man living through a turbulent political period in Cuban history: the insurrectional struggle against the dictatorial government of Fulgencio Batista. Desperate to escape the disappointments and cruelties of his...
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