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29 nov 1985 · Farewell to the Sea is the middle volume of a five-part work of Himalayan scale, the Pentagonia – a literary Pentateuch conceived as a secret history of Castro’s Cuba. It serves as a useful sampler for those intending to scale the whole; few, I suspect, will be tempted by that fictional Everest.
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7 lug 1987 · In this brilliant, apocalyptic vision of Castro's Cuba, we meet a young couple who leave the dreariness of Havana and spend six days at a small seaside retreat, where they hope to recapture the desire and carefree spirit that once united them.
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- Reinaldo Arenas
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- Penguin Books
Farewell to the Sea is a 1987 book and the third in Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas' Pentagonia book series, which critics have often argued as his best. Set on a Cuban beach immediately following the revolution, a disenchanted poet mourns for the new suppression while his wife longs for the connectivity that she can no longer find ...
- Reinaldo Arenas
- 1987
Compra Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba. SPEDIZIONE GRATUITA su ordini idonei
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A passionate indictment of tyranny and a brilliant, apocalyptic vision of Castro's Cuba. A young couple escapes to a seaside retreat, where they confront their personal and political struggles, loss of freedom, and desire.
29 nov 1985 · Arenas, expelled from Cuba in 1980, has written a splenetic indictment of totalitarianism in general and his native country in particular. The novel's first part, an interior monologue, represents the memories and fantasies of a woman on vacation with her husband and infant son.
- Reinaldo Arenas
A passionate indictment of tyranny and a fierce vision of Castro's Cuba, this novel follows a young couple who escape to a seaside retreat. The wife recounts her loss of freedom and hope, while the husband laments his artistic and homosexual freedom denied.
