June 2011
5 posts
“What interested Chandler was the here and now of the daily experience of the now...”
– Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future
Productive Prison Time
When I finished the book, I sent it from prison to several publishers, but none of them took it on. It was thanks to Rafael Galvan, the former leader of the electricians’ union and a sympathizer of Trotsky’s, that it got published. Galvan, a Cardenista who later became a PRI senator, rang El Caballito publishers and urged them to do it. The book came out in 1971 and went through four...
