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El color del verano (The Color of Summer) » (Spanish-language Edition)
Authors: Reinaldo Arenas
ISBN-13: 9788483100820, ISBN-10: 8483100827
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Tusquets Editores
Date Published: July 2002
Edition: Spanish-language Edition
Author Biography: Reinaldo Arenas
Book Synopsis
The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonia, a five-volume cycle of autobiographical novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate installment in his "secret history of Cuba," it was, in fact, the last book Arenas wrote before his death in 1990. A tale of survival by wits and wit, The Color of Summer is ultimately a powerful and passionate story about the triumph of the human spirit over the forces of political and sexual repression.
Washinton Post Book World
The Color of Summer is as far as one can get from a flawless novel, and as close as one can hope to get, in our literary climate, to a visionary work of incomparable genius.
Table of Contents
| The Flight of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda | 3 | |
| A Tongue Twister (1) | 62 | |
| "HM, top, seeking same..." | 63 | |
| In the Monster Men's Room | 69 | |
| A Tongue Twister (2) | 73 | |
| Painting | 74 | |
| The Seven Major Categories of Queenhood | 78 | |
| Fairies on the Beach | 80 | |
| A Prayer | 83 | |
| A Letter | 84 | |
| A Walking Tour Through Old Havana in the Company of Alejo Sholekhov | 88 | |
| Buses or Turtles? | 92 | |
| Oscar Flies by Night | 100 | |
| A Journey to Holguin | 102 | |
| A Journey to the Moon | 108 | |
| A Tongue Twister (3) | 109 | |
| Before Undertaking a Long Journey | 110 | |
| Hell Hath No Fury Like a Fairy Spurned | 115 | |
| A Journey by Train | 116 | |
| The Story | 125 | |
| A Tongue Twister (4) | 129 | |
| Virgilio Pinera Reads His Evanescent Poems | 130 | |
| For Bosch, She Noshes | 136 | |
| Some Unsettling Questions | 137 | |
| A Tongue Twister (5) | 139 | |
| In the Monster Men's Room | 140 | |
| A Tour of Inspection | 144 | |
| Rosa's Little Pink Slippers, the Magic Ring, and the Seven-League Swim Fins | 155 | |
| The Story | 167 | |
| A Tongue Twister (6) | 169 | |
| A Letter | 170 | |
| Medicinal Immersions | 176 | |
| A Tongue Twister (7) | 179 | |
| The Party Begins | 180 | |
| The Lock Queen | 183 | |
| A Tongue Twister (8) | 186 | |
| Nouveaux Pensees de Pascal, ou Pensees d'Enfer | 187 | |
| The Super-Skewer | 191 | |
| The Three Weird Sisters, Plus One | 194 | |
| The Guest in Distress | 197 | |
| The Death of Lezama | 200 | |
| A Tongue Twister (9) | 202 | |
| St. Nelly | 203 | |
| The Story | 209 | |
| A Tongue Twister (10) | 211 | |
| The Four Major Categories of Tops | 212 | |
| A Dying Mother | 215 | |
| Crucifuckingfixion | 219 | |
| The Anglo-Campesina | 222 | |
| The Key to the Gulf | 225 | |
| The Electric Venus | 231 | |
| Coco Salas' Secret | 232 | |
| A Tongue Twister (11) | 236 | |
| The Seven Wonders of Cuban Socialism | 237 | |
| In the Library | 239 | |
| A Clarification by the Three Weird Sisters | 240 | |
| A Scream in the Night (Though It Was Bright as Day) | 241 | |
| A Tongue Twister (12) | 249 | |
| Stool Pigeons | 250 | |
| Foreword | 252 | |
| A Tongue Twister (13) | 257 | |
| The Condesa de Merlin | 258 | |
| Impossible Dreams | 270 | |
| At the Exit to El Morro Castle | 272 | |
| Farewell to the Sea | 280 | |
| Jose Lezama Lima's Lecture | 281 | |
| A Tongue Twister (14) | 293 | |
| A Letter | 294 | |
| The Areopagite | 298 | |
| A Tongue Twister (15) | 307 | |
| Forbidden Costumes | 308 | |
| The Areopagite's Story | 309 | |
| A Tongue Twister (16) | 313 | |
| A Fugitive's Toccata and Fugue | 314 | |
| A Journey to the Moon | 320 | |
| A Tongue Twister (17) | 323 | |
| Monkeyshines | 324 | |
| In El Morro Castle | 327 | |
| The Story | 334 | |
| A Tongue Twister (18) | 335 | |
| The Confession of H. Puntilla | 336 | |
| Skunk in a Funk | 341 | |
| A Tongue Twister (19) | 342 | |
| That Earthshaking Coupling | 343 | |
| A Tongue Twister (20) | 350 | |
| A Letter | 351 | |
| The Death of Virgilio Pinera | 354 | |
| A Tongue Twister (21) | 358 | |
| The Trials and Tribulations of Young Teodoro Tampon | 359 | |
| A Tongue Twister (22) | 366 | |
| A Portrait of Luisa Perez de Zambrana | 367 | |
| A Tongue Twister (23) | 373 | |
| Clara's Hole | 374 | |
| A Tongue Twister (24) | 391 | |
| The Grand Oneirical Theological Political Philosophical Satirical Conference | 392 | |
| A Prayer | 407 | |
| A Tongue Twister (25) | 409 | |
| The Garden of Computers | 410 | |
| A Tongue Twister (26) | 416 | |
| Ass-Wiggling and Backside-Swinging | 417 | |
| A Tongue Twister (27) | 421 | |
| The Dual Nature of the [Genius, Tyrant] | 422 | |
| In the Monster Men's Room | 425 | |
| A Tongue Twister (28) | 431 | |
| The Lady of the Veil | 432 | |
| Ass-Wiggling | 436 | |
| A Tongue Twister (29) | 438 | |
| The Elevation of the Holy Hammer | 439 | |
| The Burial of Virgilio Pinera | 443 | |
| The Departure | 445 | |
| A Tongue Twister (The Last One) | 446 | |
| Clara in Flames | 447 | |
| Pandemonium | 449 | |
| Message in a Bottle | 453 | |
| The Story | 455 | |
| Afterword | 456 |
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