Ebook {Epub PDF} The Assault by Reinaldo Arenas

In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba", Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at tim. Arenas creates his own biting satire of what life is like for Cubans, homosexuals in particular, in Castro’s Communist Cuba. Rather than recreating this hell realistically (as he does in Before Night Falls), Arenas limns a dystopian animal world in which the narrator—a hardline, hateful, and clawed beast of some kind—searches out his mother so that he can kill her/5. The Assault: A Novel (Pentagonia) Paperback – June 1, by. Reinaldo Arenas (Author) › Visit Amazon's Reinaldo Arenas Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Reinaldo Arenas (Author), Andrew Hurley (Translator) › /5(5).

Reinaldo Arenas. (translated by Andrew Hurley) The difference between the communist and capitalist systems is that, although both give you a kick. in the ass, in the communist system you have to applaud, while in the capitalist system you can. scream. And I came here to scream. -Reinaldo Arenas, shortly after arriving in Miami, THE ASSAULT By Reinaldo Arenas. Translated by Andrew Hurley. pp. New York: Viking. $ IN this last of a five-book sequence detailing "the secret history of Cuba," Reinaldo Arenas, the. In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba", Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at times boldly entertaining, Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a world where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death and a cockroach hunt makes for a national holiday.

The Assault by Reinaldo Arenas. Viking. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. The Assault: A Novel by Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew Hurley (Translator), Thomas Colchie (Introduction) Paperback $ Ship This. The Assault [El Asalto] () Author Info: Reinaldo Arenas. (translated by Andrew Hurley) The difference between the communist and capitalist systems is that, although both give you a kick. in the ass, in the communist system you have to applaud, while in the capitalist system you can. scream.