(Martà News, 6/12/1910)
- This December 7th marks one year of the death of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. The author of "Before Night Falls" committed suicide twenty years ago in an apartment in New York, sick with AIDS.
The appearance in Castilian, in recent days, from "Letters to Margarita and Jorge Camacho", pays homage and gives birth to his work.
volume published by Seville Lunettes Point Arenas collected 144 letters of George and Margarita Camacho, written from 1967 until days before his death in 1990. Had previously been published in France.
The book contains the testimony about the suffering and avatars had to live this great writer, pursued by the communist regime of Fidel Castro, whom he supported in the early stages of the Revolution for his political dissent and their status homosexual.
This correspondence of Reinaldo Arenas - born in Holguin Cuba, in 1943 - with his friends, is a supplement to his famous autobiographical novel "Before Night Falls," which was filmed by Julian Schnabel, Javier Bardem in the role of Cuban writer.
In these letters we can see the deep relationship with Camacho, a couple of painters, whom he met in Havana while attending the "Salon de Mai."
The English newspaper El Mundo notes that Arenas fought for personal freedom, defended his creations and the obsession with Cuban culture, and it was banned, persecuted, imprisoned and exiled.
The narrator, poet, essayist and playwright, was between 1974 and 1976 in prison, where she suffered humiliation and abuse.
"The letters to Margarita and Jorge Camacho" included this letter: "Dear Margaret, do not know if you understand my point, but here I have a typewriter. I am very concerned about the fate of my manuscripts. You know that for me the only meaning of my life is knowing they are safe and that nothing has been lost ... But I fear that the Cuban police, who are everywhere in the world (where you least imagine), can get rid of my work . Margarita, these papers are my children, my life ...".
The book concludes with a moving and powerful letter written by Arenas few days before his death, and in which the writer says goodbye of his friends.
"Given the precarious state of my health and emotional depression that I feel terrible not being able to keep writing and fighting for freedom in Cuba, I end my life. In recent years, although I felt very ill, I could finish my literary work in which I worked for almost thirty years. I leave as a legacy of all my terrors, but also hopes that Cuba will be free ... I already am, "the authors write.
The 144 letters span nearly half-life of Reinaldo Arenas. Under the same policy, the author speaks of his travels, literature, or the many writers who criticized for supporting the regime of Fidel Castro, and his health, pest AIDS. The editorial Tusquets
rereleased his autobiographical novel, the legendary "Before Night Falls."
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