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100 1 $aArenas, Reinaldo,$d1943-1990.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50023616
240 10 $aAsalto.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe assault /$cReinaldo Arenas ; translated by Andrew Hurley.
260 $a[New York] :$bViking,$c1994.
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300 $axi, 145 pages ;$c23 cm
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520 $aThe author of the brilliant and highly acclaimed memoir, Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas concluded his sequence of five novels - at once a "secret history of Cuba" and a writer's autobiography - with an allegorical satire. In The Assault, he paints a harrowing, yet at times boldly entertaining, Kafkaesque picture of a dehumanized people and the despair of an observer/narrator himself clinging to sanity.
520 8 $aThis profane narrative, filled with righteous rage, takes us on a surreal journey through a blackly humorous shadowland where philosophical discussion, homosexuality, and forgetting the words to heroic anthems are comparable crimes - and a cockroach hunt makes a national holiday.
520 8 $aWith echoes of Rabelais, Swift, Orwell, and the films of Lois Bunuel, The Assault crowns the work of one of the most visionary writers to have emerged from Castro's Cuba, a writer whom Octavio Paz called "remarkable... as much for his intellectual dignity as for his talent."
700 1 $aHurley, Andrew,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013108675
852 00 $bglx$hPQ7390.A72$iA813 1994