Description
In this groundbreaking early work set in the United States, a young Cuban refugee finds work as a doorman in a luxury apartment building—only to feel profoundly out of place among the people he serves. As he watches the tenants’ lives from the margins, an unsettling, surreal bond forms with their pets, whose instincts and intelligence seem to carry a growing will to resist humanity itself. Blending displacement, desire, and darkly comic fantasy, the novel explores themes of exile, alienation, power, and the thin line between caretaking and control. With Reinaldo Arenas’s vivid, audacious style and fearless imagination, the story turns everyday routines into a charged allegory about who gets to belong—and what happens when the powerless decide to strike back.
Available Editions
paperback
Grove Press
Published Jan 1, 1994
191 pages
ISBN: 9780802134059
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Details
First Published
1994
Language
spa
Translation
From: spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Doorman by Reinaldo Arenas.