In 1970 Edwards was sent by socialist Chilean President Allende as his country's first envoy to break the diplomatic blockade that had sealed Cuba for over a decade, and open a Chilean embassy. His arrival coincided with the turning point of the revolution, when Castro began to repress the very intellectuals he once courted. Edwards recorded his disenchantment with the revolution in this book that made him a victim of double censorship and was banned by the left as well as the right. Since its publication over thirty years ago, it has maintained its authenticity and is considered the most controversial and notorious work of the winner of the Premio Cervantes 1999.

Persona non grata: An envoy in Castro's Cuba

Biographies & Memoirs

EDWARDS, JORGE

Memoirs

Pomerica Press

This is the author's powerful personal account of his three-month stay in Cuba in 1970-71 when, as his country's first envoy to Cuba, he was sent by the late President Allende to re-open the Chilean Embassy in Havana.

Persona Non Grata: An Envoy in Castro's Cuba

Pomerica Press, New York

<p>In 1970 Jorge Edwards was sent by socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende as his country’s first envoy to break the diplomatic blockade that had sealed Cuba for over a decade. His arrival coincided with the turning point of the revolution, when Castro began to repress the very intellectuals he once courted. In Kafkaesque detail, Edwards records the four explosive months he spent in Havana trying to open a Chilean embassy and his disenchantment with the revolution. His stay culminated in the arrest of his friend Heberto Padilla—the first imprisonment of a well-known writer by the regime—for giving Edwards a “negative view of the revolution.” In a menacing midnight political debate with Edwards immediately after Padilla’s arrest, Castro argued that in this phase of the revolution, bourgeois writers would no longer have “anything to do in Cuba.” Castro accused Edwards of “conduct hostile to the revolution” and declared him “persona non grata.” The winner of the Cervantes prize—the Spanish language equivalent to the Nobel Prize for literature—Jorge Edwards' memoir splendidly recounts this time and the wrath of Castro.</p>

Persona Non Grata: A Memoir of Disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution (Nation Books)

Historical

Nation Books

<p>The author shares his impressions of Castro, and explains why he became disillusioned with Cuba's government</p>

Persona Non Grata: A Memoir of Disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution

MARLOWE & COMPANY *

Der Ursprung der Welt

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Wagenbach Klaus GmbH

Persona Non Grata (Spanish Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Aims Intl Books Corp

Los Convidados De Piedra (Spanish Edition)

El Peso De LA Noche/the Weight of the Night (Spanish Edition)

Literary

Lectorum Pubns

Museo De Cera (Narradores)

Bruguera

Un joven escritor, el Poeta, apura la vida entre tragos y amorios en el Santiago de Chile de la posguerra. Enamorado de Teresa, marcha tras ella al Paris de los anos 60, donde ambos se entregan a una pasion clandestina en continuo peligro de ser descubiertos.Mas tarde se trasladara a Cuba, donde vivira intensos momentos politicos de la revolucion, para volver definitivamente a su pais, a punto de caer bajo la dictadura de Pinochet.La Casa de Dostoievsky es un texto generacional sobre quienes, desde el compromiso, evolucionaron y pagaron el precio de esta evolucion liberadora, siempre mal vista por los pretendidos duenos del pensamiento politicamente correcto. Un homenaje a la poesia y a la creacion artistica.Una gran novela de Jorge Edwards que, con su magistral estilo y su absoluta madurez como escritor, revela las claves literarias de este autor esencial.

Justos por pecadores (Spanish Edition)

Genre Fiction

Editorial Planeta

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