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A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the
Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and
was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney
Weaver. A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have
been her torturer happens to re-enter her life. Death and the
Maiden was given a first reading at the Institute for Contemporary
Art in London in November 1990. After a workshop production staged
in Santiago, Chile, in March 1991, the play had its world premiere
at the Royal Court Upstairs, London, in July 1991, transferring to
the Main Stage at the Royal Court in October. The play then
transferred to the West End, at the Duke of York's Theatre, in
February 1992. Death and the Maiden won the 1992 Olivier Award for
Best New Play.
Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is
set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy.
Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that
will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks
down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But
in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas,
thinks she recognizes another man--the one who raped and tortured
her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years
before.
"I have created for each of you a fate, one tailored specifically
for your needs and desires. Each of you has a defining moment-not
before, not after-when a wrong turn or decision led to the
disastrous outcome that you and I mourn. To isolate that malignant
moment is an exacting, exhaustive process, which only the most
well-trained and competent professionals, armed with the most
sophisticated of predictive models and processing power, can
accomplish. You can put your trust in me, as you would in an expert
surgeon, a surgeon of the soul." On a distant planet overlooking
Earth, the nameless protagonist of The Compensation Bureau is one
of a team of Actuaries at work on the innovative Lazarus Project.
Conceived in response to the shocking violence observed in
humankind, the project identifies people who have wrongfully died
at the hands of others-whether victims of war, hate crimes, or
random brutality-and attempts to compensate for the cruelty and
pain they faced in life and death. But balancing the accounts for
the sufferings and wrongdoings of humanity proves hardly a clinical
exercise. The Actuary soon finds himself personally invested in the
project's mission, and the goals of the project itself are
complicated as the fate of Earth's inhabitants becomes more
uncertain. The Compensation Bureau explores the power of individual
and collective action, from a writer hailed by The Washington Post
as "a world-novelist of the first category."
This short novel is about confinement, both of the mind and of the
body, and therefore also about liberation. Set in the last years of
the 16th century, Cautivos is a meditation on writing, writers, and
creativity. Then as now, Islam and Christianity were at loggerheads
and women found themselves playing new roles, and imprisonment or
worse was society's answer to everything from murder to dissent.
Writer/activist Ariel Dorfman imagines for us scenes from the
picaresque life of Miguel de Cervantes, a man who wrestled as
intensely with the contradictions implicit in writing fiction-how
can one write something "real" if it is labelled fiction, but in
fact how can one write anything "real" unless it is fiction?-as any
scribbler who followed him in the centuries since. Cervantes, of
course, was the soldier, spy and adventurer who in 1605 gave the
world Don Quixote, often described as the first modern novel, a
book that has influenced Western culture perhaps more than any
other book save the Bible. In Cautivos, we are witness to the birth
of the spirit of Don Quixote de la Mancha: an honorable if doomed
figure whose travails mirror those of Miguel de Cervantes himself.
Few writers have written more lovingly about their subjects than
Cervantes wrote about his Quixote, and few are better positioned to
appreciate the spiritual journey of Cervantes himself than Ariel
Dorfman, who-not unlike Cervantes-has been alternately hounded and
feted by those in authority.
First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by
revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved
cartoons. Having survived bonfires, impounding and being dumped
into the ocean by the Chilean army, this controversial book is once
again back on our shelves. Written and published during the
blossoming of Salvador Allende's revolutionary socialism, the book
examines how Disney comics not only reflect capitalist ideology,
but are active agents working in this ideology's favour. Focusing
on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney, curiously parentless,
marginalised and always short of cash, Ariel Dorfman and Armand
Mattelart expose how these characters established hegemonic ideas
about capital, race, gender and the relationship between developed
countries and the Third World. A devastating indictment of a media
giant, a document of twentieth-century political upheaval, and a
reminder of the dark undercurrent of pop culture, How to Read
Donald Duck is once again available, together with a new
introduction by Ariel Dorfman.
"If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty,
we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue
justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way,
and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame."
Forget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim Jong-il, or Gaddafi:
America need look no further than its own lauded leaders for a war
criminal whose offenses rival those of the most heinous dictators
in recent history-Henry Kissinger.
Employing evidence based on firsthand testimony, unpublished
documents, and new information uncovered by the Freedom of
Information Act, and using only what would hold up in international
courts of law, THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER outlines atrocities
authorized by the former secretary of state in Indochina,
Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus, East Timor, and in the plight of the
Iraqi Kurds, "including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and
torture."
With the precision and tenacity of a prosecutor, Hitchens offers an
unrepentant portrait of a felonious diplomat who "maintained that
laws were like cobwebs," and implores governments around the world,
including our own, to bring him swiftly to justice.
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Widows (Paperback)
Ariel Dorfman, Tony Kushner
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R304
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A smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a
country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the
Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of
Angels in America. In a war-torn village the men have disappeared.
The women - their mothers, wives, daughters - wait by the river,
hope and mourn. Their anguish is unspoken until bruised and broken
bodies begin being washed up on the banks and the women defy the
military in the only form of protest left to them. Ariel Dorfman's
play Widows is based on his 1983 novel of the same name. The play
was first presented by the Traverse Theatre Company at the
Cambridge Arts Theatre in March 1997. (An earlier version of the
play was first performed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in
July 1991).
First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by
revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved
cartoons. Having survived bonfires, impounding and being dumped
into the ocean by the Chilean army, this controversial book is once
again back on our shelves. Written and published during the
blossoming of Salvador Allende's revolutionary socialism, the book
examines how Disney comics not only reflect capitalist ideology,
but are active agents working in this ideology's favour. Focusing
on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney, curiously parentless,
marginalised and always short of cash, Ariel Dorfman and Armand
Mattelart expose how these characters established hegemonic ideas
about capital, race, gender and the relationship between developed
countries and the Third World. A devastating indictment of a media
giant, a document of twentieth-century political upheaval, and a
reminder of the dark undercurrent of pop culture, How to Read
Donald Duck is once again available, together with a new
introduction by Ariel Dorfman.
La muerte y la doncella, la obra latinoamericana mas representada
en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clasico
sobre la justicia y el perdon, la memoria y el olvido. Dorfman se
ha propuesto a explorar preguntas pocas veces hechas en voz alta:
"Como pueden los represores y los oprimidos cohabitar una misma
tierra, compartir una misma mesa?" preguntas que hoy dia siguen tan
vigentes como cuando Dorfman escribia esta obra.
"A multifaceted journey that is geographical, personal and
political . . . A complex, nuanced view of United States-Latin
American politics and relations of the last forty some years." --
Durham Herald-Sun "One of the most important voices coming out of
South America." -- Salman Rushdie In September 1973, the military
took power in Chile, and Ariel Dorfman, a young leftist allied with
President Allende, was forced to flee for his life. In Feeding on
Dreams, Dorfman portrays, through visceral scenes and with
startling honesty, the personal and political maelstroms that have
defined his life since the Pinochet coup. Dorfman's wry and
masterfully told account takes us on a page-turning tour of the
past several decades of North-South political history and of the
complex consequences of revolution and tyranny, excavating for the
first time his profound and provocative journey as an exile and the
consequences for his wife and family. "Fascinating." -- San
Francisco Examiner "A great book that will simultaneously undo us
and sustain us." -- Tikkun
Eno Publishers builds on its successful 27 Views series by
showcasing the literary community of Durham, North Carolina, in 27
Views of Durham: The Bull City in Prose & Poetry. The book
features 27 writers, who in poetry, essays, short stories, and book
excerpts focus on the town of Durham, famous for Duke University,
tobacco, and Southern cuisine. The collection offers readers a
broad and varied picture of life past and present in Durham, as
well as a sense of the town's literary breadth. Contributing
authors include Steve Schewel, Barry Saunders, Jean Anderson, Carl
Kenney, Katy Munger, David Guy, Ariel Dorfman, Pierce Freelon,
Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Andre Vann, John Valentine, Shirlette Ammons,
Jim Wise, and others.
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Hard Rain (Paperback)
Ariel Dorfman; Translated by George Shivers
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R375
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A classic of world literature back in print in a Spanish-language
edition.
Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.
In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman switched languages and countries--not once, but three times--is a day-to-day account of his multiple escapes from death during Pinochet's military takeover of Chile in 1973. Combining eight vignettes of his life before 1973 with eight scenes from the coup, Dorfman filters these events through an engaging, hybrid consciousness. A beautifully written and deeply moving auto-biography by one of the "greatest living Latin American writers" (Newsweek), Heading South, Looking North is at once a vivid account of a life as complex and mysterious as the fictional characters Dorfman has created, and an enthralling search for a permanent home, a political cause, and a cultural identity.
In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the
political and social implications of the smiling faces that inhabit
familiar books, comics, and magazines. He reveals the ideological
messages conveyed in works of popular culture such as the Donald
Duck comics, the Babar children's books, and "Reader's Digest
"magazine. "The Empire's Old Clothes" was widely praised when it
was first published in 1983. This edition, including a new preface
by the author, makes a contemporary classic newly available.
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Purgatorio (Paperback)
Ariel Dorfman
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A powerful and poetic play, with echoes of Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis
Clos and Euripides' Medea. From the author of Death and the Maiden.
A Man and a Woman in purgatory - a soul-less white room. Each is
interrogated in turn by the other. Each is groping for forgiveness
and contrition. But one of them has done something unforgiveable...
Ariel Dorfman's play Purgatorio was first performed at the Seattle
Repertory Theatre, Seattle, USA, in November 2005. (An earlier
version was first performed in a rehearsed reading at the Criterion
Theatre, London, in November 2001). The play was first staged in
the UK at the Arcola Theatre, London, in January 2008.
Formerly exiled Chilean author Ariel Dorfman, one of Latin
America's greatest writers and a major literary figure of the
twentieth century, is known for such critically acclaimed works as
the novel "Widows" and the play "Death and the Maiden," A master of
various literary forms, this collection draws together Dorfman's
critical essays on contemporary Latin American writing. Spanning
more than twenty years and arranged in chronological order, each
essay is devoted to a single author--Miguel Angel Asturias, Jorge
Luis Borges, Jose Maria Arguedas, Alejo Carpentier, Gabrial Garcia
Marquez, Roa Bastos--and one final essay looks at the "testimonial"
or concentration camp literature from Chile.
Praise for Ariel Dorfman
"One of the most important voices coming out of Latin
America."--Salman Rushdie
"A remarkable writer . . . writing out of a very different cultural
perspective from comfortable American readers."--Digby Diehl, "Los
Angeles Herald Examiner"
"One of the six greatest Latin American novelists."--Jacobo
Timmerman, "Newsweek"
In the world of Chilean poet Ariel Dorfman, men and women can be
forced to choose between leaving their country or dying for it. The
living risk losing everything, but what they hold onto—love,
faith, hope, truth—might change the world. It is this subversive
possibility that speaks through these poems. A succession of
voices—exiles, activists, separated lovers, the families of those
victimized by political violence—gives an account of ruptured
safety. They bear witness to the resilience of the human spirit in
the face of personal and social damage in the aftermath of terror.
The first bilingual edition of Dorfman’s work, In Case of Fire in
a Foreign Land includes ten new poems and a new preface, and brings
back into print the classic poems of the celebrated Last Waltz in
Santiago. Always an eloquent voice against the ravages of
inhumanity, Dorfman’s poems, like his acclaimed novels, continue
to be a searing testimony of hope in the midst of despair.
Text in Arabic. Tense and tightly woven, Thiqah is a dramatic novel
set in Paris during World War II about a woman whose lover is
accused of working for the Resistance. The novel follows nine hours
of phone conversations between a woman and a mysterious stranger
who seems to know everything about her and the reasons she fled her
homeland. As the dialogue progresses, the man tells her many
disturbing things about her and her lover (who may be in great
danger), the political situations in which they are enmeshed, and
his fantasies about her. Powerful and menacing, Thiqah draws the
reader into a post-modern mystery where nothing -- including the
text itself -- is what it seems.
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