A contextual and literary analysis of Arturo, la estrella más brillante [Arcturus, the brightest star], the brightest star, is carried out; it is one of the least known brief novels by Reinaldo Arenas, in which he pays homage to writer Nelson Rodríguez. Emphasis is made on the metafiction, intertextuality and rhetorical resources the author resorts to build the narration. The work recreates the horror of the concentration camps for sexual and political dissidents in Castro's Cuba. At once the novel locates in the testimonial literature and autobiography and puts forward imagination as a form of creative evasion that opposes censorship.Se realiza un análisis contextual y literario de Arturo, la estrella más brillante, una de las novelas brev...