Otra vez el mar... los cantos de Reinaldo Arenas

Durante los años sesenta y setenta, el gobierno de Fidel Castro persiguio a los intelectuales y homosexuales de la isla. Bajo la teoria del hombre nuevo de Che Guevara, el gobierno cubano trato de homogeneizar la sociedad, persiguiendo y reinsertando a todos aquellos que no se asemejaban a esta imagen viril y productiva del hombre. A traves de la novela de ficcion Otra vez el mar, Reinaldo Arenas ofrece el testimonio sobre su situacion de rechazado en su propio pais, escondiendose detras de su protagonista Hector. Este, un escritor homosexual, se autocensura y oculta su vertiente homosexual imaginando una vida respetable de hombre casado con hijo, a fin de integrarse en la sociedad cubana. Esta negacion de su propia identidad y persona acaba destruyendo al personaje, quien se suicida al final de la novela. Muchas veces la critica ha rechazado la obra de ficcion como parte del genero testimonio, argumentando que los elementos ficcionales se contraponen al caracter testimonial. No obstante, varios criticos no estan de acuerdo con esta afirmacion y consideran que la ficcion enriquece la realidad. De este modo, demostrare que hay otra posible manera de interpretar esos testimonios novelados, recordando la teoria de la novela testimonial frente a la novela-testimonio del critico Abdeslam Azougarh.

Una novela inedita de Reinaldo Arenas

This is the first article publishes about the unpublished novel by Reinaldo Arenas "Que dura es la vida". It tries to demonstrate that despite the fact the this is a novel written during the author's adolescence and before he had any literary education, it already shows signs of what the readers will discover in his master pieces later on.

Autofiction as a fictional metaphorical self-translation:the case of Reinaldo Arenas' El color del verano

In the past thirty years, autofiction has been at the center of many literary studies (Alberca 2005/6, 2007; Colonna 1989, 2004; Gasparini 2004; Genette 1982), although only recently in Hispanic literary studies. Despite the many common characteristics with self-translation, no interdisciplinary perspective has ever been offered by academic researchers in Literary nor in Translation Studies. This article analyses how the Cuban author, Reinaldo Arenas, uses specific methods inherent to autofiction, such as nominal and personal identity exploitation, among others, to translate himself metaphorically into his novel El color del verano [The colour of summer]. Analysing this novel drawing on the theory of self-translation sheds light on the intrinsic and extraneous motives behind the writer’s decision to use this specific literary genre, as well as the benefits presented to the reader who gains access to the ‘interliminal space’ of the writer’s work as a whole.