“The Portrait of Lenin. History of a chimera, poem and stories outside the closet”

Comment on Ricardo Valenzuela’s book, of recent appearance. It is not about his own memories, but about the construction of the memory of a Chilean, communist, homosexual narrator who enters the Communist Youth in the 1960s, militating and occupying important responsibilities during the People’s Unity and the fight against the civil-military dictatorship. The work goes through the militant life of a human being who, beyond his sexual orientation…