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In December 1990, Reinaldo Arenas, very ill with AIDS, committed suicide in New York, leaving this shocking personal and political testimony, a memoir that he had put an end to just a few days before ending his life. Arenas met the three ideal conditions to become one of the many outcasts persecuted by the prison regime of Castro's Cuba: he was a writer, homosexual and dissident. The recovery of this testimony, now a classic, shows that, thirty years after that heartrending cry, intellectuals and opponents are still being silenced and imprisoned, and this vindication of civil and personal rights continues to be more timely than ever, now They seem to be in a continual decline. From the underworld of Havana, where those excluded from the system live poorly, to oppression abroad, Arenas's life was, much to his regret, a delicate and committed vital and intellectual adventure.