Arenas’ voice in exile: Can libraries and technology transcend banishment?

Reinaldo Arenas. Some Cuban friends –university peers– in my native Bulgaria brought the name to my ears for the first time in December 1990. They were already exiles themselves, in their late teens or early 20s when the communist regime in Bulgaria went down in 1989; Fidel Castro withdrew immediately all Cubans studying there. My friends refused to go back and were thus automatically deprived of Cuban citizenship. Anybody who has read Arenas’ books has experienced the tragic poetic beauty, t..