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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Edwards, Jorge
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Jorge Edwards Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jq085j98b
- Dates:
- 1953-1982
- Size:
- 10 boxes, 198 items, and 4.10 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-10
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Jorge Edwards is a writer and former diplomat whose critical stance on oppressive dictatorships in Latin America has sparked controversy. This collection contains drafts of some of his novels, short stories, essays, and articles, as well as notebooks and correspondence with literary figures, politicians, and his extensive family.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Contains drafts of the novels El Peso de la Noche (Santiago de Chile: Zig-Zag, 1967), Persona Non Grata (Barcelona: Barral Editores, 1973), Los Convidados de Piedra (Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1978), and El Museo de Cera (Barcelona: Bruguera, 1981). Drafts of several short stories, essays, and articles, as well as notebooks (1953-1970) and correspondence (1957-1982) with literary figures, politicians, and his extensive family, are also included. José Donoso, Sergio Edwards, Jaime Laso, Enrique Lihn, Pablo Neruda, Luis Pascal, José Rodriguez Feo, Jorge Sanhueza, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Claudio Véliz are some of the correspondents.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Edwards, Jorge
Jorge Edwards is a Chilean writer and former diplomat whose critical stance on oppressive dictatorships in Latin America has sparked controversy. Born in Chile in 1931, Edward was educated in the United States and served as a Chilean diplomat in Cuba and France in the 1970s. He openly criticized the regimes of Fidel Castro in Cuba and Augusto Pinochet in Chile, which eventually led to his exile in Spain. He authored Persona Non Grata, a memoir of his time in Cuba, and Adios, Poeta, a biography of Pablo Neruda, along with several other novels, short stories, poems, and essays. His most persistent theme is the weakness of middle-class society, and his stories, like those of Mario Benedetti in Uruguay, show the pathos, homor, grief and tragedy inherent in his capital city. These stories have appeared in the collections El patio (1952), Gente de la ciudad (1961) and Las máscaras (1967).
Collection History
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Jorge Edwards Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jq085j98b
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-10
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- Bibliography
Biography Source: The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature (1978)
- Subject Terms:
- Chile -- Politics and government -- 1970-
Chilean fiction. -- 20th century
Latin American literature. -- 20th century
Novelists, Chilean. -- 20th century - Genre Terms:
- Fiction. -- 20th century
Manuscripts (for publication)
Notebooks -- 20th century