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Self-Portrait of the Other
A Memoir
by Heberto Padilla
ISBN: 0374260869
ISBN-13: 9780374260866
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 1990
Size: 6 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
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Revealing his own experiences as Cuba's exiled premier poet, the author tells the ironic tale of Castro's revolution, the artists who initially embraced it with delusions of utopia, and the brutal political realities of totalitarianism.
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Self-Portrait of the Other: A Memoir
Heberto Padilla
Farrar Straus Giroux. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! ( more information) Offered by Better World Books (United States)
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Self-Portrait of the Other: A Memoir
Padilla, Heberto
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover with DJ. VG/VG, former library, cover and text are very clean, sound binding. ISBN: 0374260869. ( more information) Offered by Mihaly's Rare Books (United States)
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Self-Portrait of the Other: A Memoir
Padilla, Heberto
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1990 a solid copy; ---------- SATISFACTION GUARANTEED --------- FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE ------ ALL DUSTJACKETS ARE COVERED WITH NEW CLEAR MYLAR PROTECTOR -----. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ Hardback/Fine Dustjacket. 6 x 8". ( more information) Offered by P. C. Schmidt, Bookseller (United States)
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Padilla, Heberto
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. Ink on upper corner of ffep.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information) Offered by Tom and Rita McCauley (United States)
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Padilla, Herberto
NY USA: FSG, 1990 First Thus. Hard Cover. VG+, Owner's Name End Page/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Everybody's Bookstore (United States)
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Padilla, Heberto
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0374260869 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Revealing his own experiences as Cuba's exiled premier poet, the author tells the ironic tale of Castro's revolution, the artists who initially embraced it with delusions of utopia, and the brutal political realities of totalitarianism. ; 247 pages . ( more information) Offered by Gibson's Books (United States)
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Self-Portrait of the Other : A Memoir
Padilla, Heberto; Coleman, Alexander (translator)
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1989. Autobiography. First American printing, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.. ISBN: 0374260869. BIOGRAPHY CUBA POLITICS GOVERNMENT LITERATURE AUTHORS CUBAN LITERARY CRITICISM GENERAL CARIBBEAN LATIN AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE WRITERS WRITING AUTHORS. ( more information) Offered by Mooreshead Books (Canada)
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Self-Portrait of the Other
Padilla, Herberto
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990 Some light creasing and minimal sunfade to dustjacket - unprice clipped. Minor bumping to spine. O/wise vg. internally vg. 247pp. "Lyrical informative study of fall of Creative Freedom in Castro's Cuba." Translation by Alexander Coleman of Padilla's Spanish original, " La Mala Memoria.". First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by M E McCarty, Bookseller (United Kingdom)
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Self-Portrait of the Other
Padilla, Heberto (trans. Alexander Coleman)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. #18105 . F/NF. 1990. 1st. HB . hb. dj/pc. 247p . very light rubbing, clean & tight. . ( more information) Offered by Ayerego Books (IOBA) (Canada)
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SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE OTHER
Padilla, Herberto
New York. 1990. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket . Translated From The Spanish By Alexander Coleman. pages: 247 pages. Cover: Jacket photograph (c) 1990 by Lee Lockwood/Black Star. Author photograph (c) 1990 by Vasco Szinetar. keywords: Literature Translated Autobiography Cuba Latin America Caribbean. ISBN: 0374260869. January 1990. HEBERTO PADILLA, Cuba’s foremost living poet as well as one of the finest twentieth-century writers in the Spanish language, is a man whose personal and political destiny has been viewed as a cautionary tale of the Cuba of Fidel Castro. Many myths have been created around Padilla-he has been extravagantly admired and bitterly vilified - but, even after his immigration to the United States in 1980, the poet has guarded his silence. Now, in SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE OTHER, his long- awaited autobiography, Padilla breaks that silence, telling the story of his life and times, in his own words and, artistically and intellectually, on his own terms. Padilla had been an eloquent supporter of the Cuban revolution and had known Fidel Castro since adolescence. When Batista fell, Padilla returned to Cuba from New York, where he had been in exile. He joined the editorial board of the magazine Lunes de Revolución and later served in official positions in Western Europe and in the Soviet Union. At the same time, Padilla’s poems were capturing the imagination of his fellow countrymen and of fellow poets like Robert Lowell, St.-John Perse, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. In 1970, he was briefly imprisoned. The world was shocked when, upon his release, and acting under severe pressure, as he describes in detail in his book, he and his colleagues performed a public act of self- criticism, denouncing their own work. Writers and intellectuals, including such figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Alberto Moravia, and Susan Sontag, broke with the Castro regime. Padilla himself would languish in Cuba until 1980, when he was allowed to come to the United States. SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE OTHER is both a poet’s prose and a memoir of Castro’s Cuba in which the political realities of that regime and the personalities of the artists who flocked from all over the world to support it are depicted. ‘Heberto Padilla’s SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE OTHER is the moving, often lyrical, informative story of the fall of creative freedom in Cuba. His descriptions of events and of individuals, such as Fidel Castro and the great poet José Lezama Lima, are unforgettable.’ - OSCAR HIJUELOS. HEBERTO PADILLA was born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, in 1932. He now lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife, poet Belkis Cuza Male, and his youngest son, Ernesto. . (original title: La mala memoria, 1989). keywords: Literature Translated Autobiography Cuba Latin America Caribbean. inventory # 14855. ISBN: 0374260869. ( more information) Offered by Zeno's (United States)
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Self-Portrait of the Other
Padilla, Heberto
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1990. 1st Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Alexander Coleman. An often lyrical, informative story of the fall of creative freedom in Cuba. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ( more information) Offered by MW Books Ltd. (Ireland)
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