Padilla, Heberto.

Self-portrait of the Other. Translated by Alexander Coleman.

First American Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990. 22 cm. 247 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. There is some staining to the front of the dustjacket. Signed / Inscriobed by Padilla on the endpaper.

The autobiography of Cuba’s finest poet, whose condemnation by the Castro regime became a cause celebre. (Amazon)

Heberto Padilla (20 January 1932 – 25 September 2000) was a Cuban poet, and the center of the so-called “Padilla affair.″
Although Padilla initially supported the revolution led by Fidel Castro, by the late 1960s he began to criticize it openly and in 1971, he was imprisoned by the Castro regime. (Wikipedia)

• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374260869
• Inventory Number: 44383AB

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