the autobiography "Before Night Falls"
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"Before Night Falls" is the memoir of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, chronicling his impoverished childhood, literary rise, persecution under Castro’s regime, imprisonment, exile, and struggle with AIDS.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| the autobiography "Before Night Falls" canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | autobiography ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | Before Night Falls (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Reinaldo Arenas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | Lambda Literary Award for Autobiography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Cuba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| EnglishPublicationYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| EnglishTranslator | Dolores M. Koch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Julian Schnabel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationLeadActor | Javier Bardem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| genre |
LGBT literature
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autobiography ⓘ political memoir ⓘ prison literature ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 0-670-83885-2 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Cuban dissident literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableTheme |
artistic freedom
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exile and displacement ⓘ mortality ⓘ poverty ⓘ sexual identity ⓘ state repression ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| publisher | Editorial Planeta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
El Morro prison
NERFINISHED
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Havana NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
rural Cuba ⓘ |
| subject |
AIDS
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Cuban Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ Fidel Castro government NERFINISHED ⓘ Reinaldo Arenas NERFINISHED ⓘ censorship ⓘ exile ⓘ homophobia in Cuba ⓘ imprisonment ⓘ political persecution ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ |
| translatedInto | English ⓘ |
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