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The Palace of the Whitest Skunks.(Review)
Arenas, Reinaldo. El palacio de las blanquisimas mofetas. (The Palace of the Whitest Skunks) 2001. 366p. ISBN 84-8310-156-4. ea. vol.: Spain: Tusquets. pap. $26.95.
With the success of Julian Schnabel's art-house movie Before Night Falls, based on the autobiography of Arenas and starring Spanish actor Javier Bardem, Arenas has begun to solidify his place in the Latin American canon. Almost unknown when he killed himself in 1990 (Jaime Manrique noted in the Village Voice that fewer than a dozen people attended Arena's funeral), Arenas is now recognized as one of Cuba's most furious and unconventional novelists, an accomplishment that is especially stunning when one …
