The Freedom of Reinaldo Arenas. A Study of his Poetic Work

Abstract

This essay analyzes the conception of freedom in the poetic work of Reinaldo Arenas. It attends motifs such as slavery, exclusion and death in order to understand the coercive world that this author presents. And also, the ways in which freedom is made in that world, through motifs that go from suicide to artistic creation. A map of the poetic motifs is built as a result, through which the conception of freedom implicit in its poetry is shown.