Title: Una caja de zapatos vacía (An empty shoe box) by Virgilio Piñera

Summary: Text of the play "Una caja de zapatos vacía" (An empty shoe box) by Virgilio Piñera, Cuban author, poet, playwright, and essayist. Due to Piñera's social and political views he was censured by the socialist regime and died without any official recognition. In 1969 Piñera was able to send this copy to his friend Luis F. González-Cruz who published it in Miami in 1986. The play touches on the methods used by the tyrants to rule over their subjects, it offers a surrealist vision of power and violence. The play is dedicated to the Cuban actor Adolfo Llauradó. Most of the play was typed on stationery of the Consejo Nacional de Cultura of Cuba

Creator: Piñera, Virgilio, 1912-1979

Collection Title: Virgilio Piñera Collection

Collection No.: 347

Container: Box No. 7, Folder No. 10, Folder Title: Piñera, Virgilio - Una caja de zapatos vacía.

Coverage Temporal: 1960-1969

Date: 1968

Donor: González-Cruz, Luis F., 1943-

Genre: Manuscripts;

Note: There are 34 numbered pages, and notes and corrections by the author throughout the text. Donor: Luis F. González-Cruz

Provenance: González-Cruz, Luis F., 1943-

Physical Description: 68 pages

Repository: University of Miami. Library. Cuban Heritage Collection

Subject: González-Cruz, Luis F., 1943-; Llauradó, Adolfo; Authors, Cuban -- 20th century; Manuscripts

Translated Title: Una caja de zapatos vacía de Virgilio Piñera

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Source: From: Una caja de zapatos vacía (An empty shoe box) by Virgilio Piñera