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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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
autobiography
political memoir
prison literature
hasISBN 0-670-83885-2
isPartOf Cuban dissident literature
narrativePerspective first-person
notableTheme artistic freedom
exile and displacement
mortality
poverty
sexual identity
state repression
originalLanguage Spanish
publicationYear 1992
publisher Editorial Planeta NERFINISHED
setting El Morro prison NERFINISHED
Havana NERFINISHED
United States of America
surface form: United States

rural Cuba
subject AIDS
Cuban Revolution NERFINISHED
Fidel Castro government NERFINISHED
Reinaldo Arenas NERFINISHED
censorship
exile
homophobia in Cuba
imprisonment
political persecution
timePeriodCovered 1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
translatedInto English

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