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Mona and Other Tales covers Reinaldo Arenas's entire his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exile. Many of the stories have not previously appeared in English.Here is the tender story of a boy who recognizes evil for the first time and decides to ignore it; the tale of a writer struggling between the demands of creativity and of fame; common people dealing with changes brought about by revolution and exile; a romp with a famous, dangerous woman in the Metropolitan Museum; an outrageous fantasy that picks up where Garcia Lorca's famous play The House of Bernardo Alba ends. Told with Arenas's famous wit and humanity, Mona makes a perfect introduction to this important writer.Translated from the Spanish by Dolores Koch.
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Mona and Other Tales, Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
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- Titel
- Mona and Other Tales
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes
- Verlag
- Vintage
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0375727302
- ISBN13
- 9780375727306
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Gegenwartsliteratur, Kurzgeschichten, LGBTQ+ Literatur, Spanische Literatur
- Bewertung
- 3,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Mona and Other Tales covers Reinaldo Arenas's entire his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exile. Many of the stories have not previously appeared in English.Here is the tender story of a boy who recognizes evil for the first time and decides to ignore it; the tale of a writer struggling between the demands of creativity and of fame; common people dealing with changes brought about by revolution and exile; a romp with a famous, dangerous woman in the Metropolitan Museum; an outrageous fantasy that picks up where Garcia Lorca's famous play The House of Bernardo Alba ends. Told with Arenas's famous wit and humanity, Mona makes a perfect introduction to this important writer.Translated from the Spanish by Dolores Koch.