The image of the implicit author projected in the
fictional universes of Reinaldo Arenas literary
works is distinctively dual in nature. The texts
written in Cuba, when the author suffered ostracism
and prosecution by the Castro regime, construct the
image of a boundless, irreverent, marginal,
humorous, tragic, homosexual Arenas. These Cuban
texts also reflect the image of an author who
opposed and subverted not only the political system
introduced on the island by the Revolution, but also
the moral values sustained by the Judeo-Christian
tradition, which Arenas considered both perverse and
oppressive. The author s literary image is therefore
constructed around the concept of political and
sexual dissidence.
fictional universes of Reinaldo Arenas literary
works is distinctively dual in nature. The texts
written in Cuba, when the author suffered ostracism
and prosecution by the Castro regime, construct the
image of a boundless, irreverent, marginal,
humorous, tragic, homosexual Arenas. These Cuban
texts also reflect the image of an author who
opposed and subverted not only the political system
introduced on the island by the Revolution, but also
the moral values sustained by the Judeo-Christian
tradition, which Arenas considered both perverse and
oppressive. The author s literary image is therefore
constructed around the concept of political and
sexual dissidence.