Virgilio Piñera : diforc'h etre ar stummoù

Due to Piñera's social points of view and especially to his homosexuality, he was censured by the revolution, and died without any official recognition. His work includes essays on literature and literary criticism, several collections of short stories compiled under the title of "Cold Tales," a great number of dramatic works, and three novels: "La carne de René" (Rene's Flesh), "Presiones y Diamantes" (Pressures and Diamonds), and "Las pequeñas maniobras" (Small manoeuvres). His work is seen today as a model by new generations of Cuban and [[Latin American]] writers. Some believe that his work influenced that of [[Reinaldo Arenas]], who wrote in his memoir ''[[Before Night Falls]]'' of Piñera's time in Argentina and friendship there with [[Witold Gombrowicz]]. The magazine Unión posthumously published autobiographical writing by Piñera in which he discussed how he concluded he was gay.<ref name="bobes">{{cite journal |last=Bobes |first=Marilyn |title=Homosexuality in Cuban Literature |journal=La Jiribilla |date=2002-04-01 |url=http://www.walterlippmann.com/lgbt-cuba-001.html |accessdate=2007-07-12 }}</ref>However, his work can not be reduced to his open discussions on homosexuality in a time when such topic was taboo, especially in the Spanish Caribbean. Piñera's literary and cultural perspective went beyond sexualities ''boutade'' to express concerns on national and continental identity, philosophical approaches to Theater, Writing and Politics, which drew fire from the Spanish American literary establishment of his time, including Cuban poets Cintio Vitier and Roberto Fernandez Retamar, and leaders like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Virgilio Piñera's work has been recently rediscovered by the American academic as a testimony of resistance against totalitarian systems in the 20th century. ▼