Abstract:Reinaldo Arenas’s El palacio de las blanquísimas mofetas and Otra vez el mar, the second and third novels, respectively, of his pentagonía trace the stories of the highly imaginative, frustrated protagonists in the last moments of the Batista regime, just before the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, and in the later years of the institutionalized revolutionary state. Like much of Arenas’s writing, these novels depict characters that are often viewed as escaping their material conditions of subjugation by means … Show more
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