Vivir, escribir, enfermar. Sobre exilio y enfermedad en Antes que anochezca de Reynaldo Arenas

In his essay on literature and disease, Roberto Bolaño presents an intimate triad of experiences that guides us through the fundamental motivations behind poetry, surely built upon trips, sex and books. This paper questions how this triad operates in the work of the Cuban writer Reynaldo Arenas, esp...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: León, Denise
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2015
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Repository:Caracol (São Paulo. Online)
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.usp.br:article/99092
Online Access:https://www.revistas.usp.br/caracol/article/view/99092
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Autofiguraciones
enfermedad
biopolítica
exilio
self-figurations
disease
bio-politics
exile
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Summary:In his essay on literature and disease, Roberto Bolaño presents an intimate triad of experiences that guides us through the fundamental motivations behind poetry, surely built upon trips, sex and books. This paper questions how this triad operates in the work of the Cuban writer Reynaldo Arenas, especially in his autobiography, Antes que anochezca, in which disease redirects the path of traveling. If runaway is a constant theme in Arenas' works, in his autobiography, exile and disease merge as interchangeable signs.