November Book Club Meeting: Before Night Falls By Reinaldo Arenas At Strut In San Francisco CA
Events. At Strut , 470 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA. United states.
Monday November 25 2019, 7:30pm
November Book Club Meeting: Before Night Falls By Reinaldo Arenas At Strut In San Francisco CA
November 25, 2019 - 7:30PM to 9:00PM
Let's talk queer lit! Join us for our November book club meeting!
Join us on November 25th at 7:30 PM on the second floor of Strut for some wine, little snacks and great conversations about gay/queer literature. Please make sure to read the entire book beforehand and come ready to discuss your thoughts.
Don’t forget, folks: we get a discount at Dog Eared Books in the Castro! Support local bookstores!
About the book:
Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural, his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Fidel Castro, and his life in revolutionary Cuba as a homosexual. Very quickly the Castro government suppressed his writing and persecuted him for his homosexuality until he was finally imprisoned.
Abut the Author:
Reinaldo Arenas was born in Cuba in 1943. In 1980, he was one of 120,000 Cubans who arrived in the United States on the Mariel boatlift. Arenas settled in New York where he lived until his death from AIDS ten years later. Arenas produced a significant body of work. In addition to significant poetic efforts ("El Central", "Leprosorio"), his Pentagonia is a set of five novels that comprise a "secret history" of post-revolutionary Cuba. In these novels Arenas’ style ranges from a stark realist narrative and high modernist experimental prose to absurd, satiric humor. His second novel, Hallucinations ("El Mundo Alucinante"), rewrites the story of the colonial dissident priest Fray Servando Teresa de Mier.
If you have any questions about Strut’s events please feel free to contact our community events manager Baruch Porras Hernandez at bporrashernandez@sfaf.org
Accessibility: There are no stairs to enter the lobby level at Strut from the street level. The building has three floors, and there is a stairwell with handrails and a wheelchair-accessible elevator. There are 26 steps from the lobby to the 2nd floor and 48 steps from the lobby to the 3rd floor.