This video drew on the following materials:
Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls https://archive.org/details/beforenightfalls00aren/mode/1up
Fernando Soto, Reinaldo Arenas https://archive.org/details/reinaldoarenas00soto
Jorge Edwards, Antes Que Anochezca https://letraslibres.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/pdf_art_6810_6182.pdf (review of the 2000 movie adaptation of Before Night Falls - Spanish)
Also mentioned:
Reinaldo Arenas (free after signup):
Singing from the Well https://archive.org/details/singingfromwell00aren_0/mode/2up
Hallucinations (also published in English under the title, The Ill Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando) https://archive.org/details/illfatedperegrin0000aren/page/n275/mode/2up
Farewell to the Sea https://archive.org/details/farewelltosean00aren
Denton Welch, A Voice through a Cloud https://youtu.be/Gm8zhScM71E
Marguerite Duras, The Lover https://youtu.be/fjkzEULtYUc
Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers
Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Franz Kafka, The Trial
I also watched this review of Before Night Falls (Spanish), thank you @pentimentohospitaldelalma5003 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTX2caDGUj0&t=367s
NOTE: I made a couple of slips of the tongue in this video. Firstly, I referred to Arenas's debut novel as "The Singing Well" not "Singing from the Well" and I also said "desperate means" rather than, of course, "desperate measures". My apologies.
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