- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Pińera, Virgilio, 1912-1979
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Virgilio Piñera Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tq57nr049
- Dates:
- 1941-1984
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.25 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Virgilio Pinera (1912-1979) was a Cuban novelist, playwright, and storywriter. The collection consists of his works, including manuscripts of various poems, an unfinished play, theatrical sketches, and prose essay. The collection also contains Piñera's extensive correspondence with Humberto Rodriguez Tomeu (1919-1994), a Cuban short story writer and translator, and Witold Gombrowicz's correspondence with Rodriguez Tomeu.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of a small collection of works by the Cuban dramatist, novelist, poet and literary critic, Virgilio Piñera, including manuscripts of various poems, an unfinished play, Un Pico O Un Pala?, theatrical sketches, and El Guante De Crin, a prose essay. The collection also contains Piñera's extensive correspondence with Humberto Rodriguez Tomeu (1919-1994), a Cuban short story writer and translator, and Witold Gombrowicz's correspondence with Rodriguez Tomeu. Also included are an audiocassette of Piñera reading his poetry, photographs of Piñera (1946-1960s), and programs from various productions of Piñera plays in Cuba and England.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Pińera, Virgilio, 1912-1979
Virgilio Pinera (1912-1979) was a Cuban novelist, playwright, and storywriter.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Abilio Estevez in 1993. More letters purchased from Julia Rodriguez Tomeu in 1995.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2002. Finding aid written in 2002.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Virgilio Piñera Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tq57nr049
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
Find More
- Existence and Location of Copies
With the exception of the audiocasettes and the letter from Luisa Piñera y Llera to Julia Rodríguez Tomeu, materials in this collection were microfilmed in March 2006.
- Subject Terms:
- Cuban literature -- 20th century.
Novelists, Cuban -- 20th century.
Novelists, Polish -- 20th century.
Poets, Cuban -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Audio cassettes.
Correspondence.
Manuscripts.
Photographs. - Names:
- Rodriguez Tomeu, Humberto, 1919-1994.
