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Draws together Dorfman's critical essays on contemporary Latin American writing

Spanning more than 20 years, the seven essays in this volume discuss contemporary Latin American writing. Each is devoted to a single author - Asturias, Borges, Arguedas, Carpentier, Marquez, Bastos - and one final essay looks at the "testimonial" or concentration camp literature from Chile.

Atom e Levana sono sposati da trent'anni e vivono in una piccola casa di campagna sotto le bombe di una guerra tra due paesi confinanti, a causa della quale hanno anche perso un figlio. Finalmente la guerra finisce, ma il nuovo confine passa in mezzo alla loro casa e per andare dalla cucina al bagno bisogna mostrare il passaporto alla kafkiana guardia che controlla, giorno e notte, la vita della coppia. Perfino il letto è diviso in due e per t...

Three powerful political plays in one volume - with a substantial introduction by the author.

Suspenseful, riveting . . . Achieves a universality that is movingly personal." -The New York Times The explosively provocative, award-winning drama set in a country that has just emerged from a totalitarian dictatorship 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 Sa...

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 vignette...

A classic text that challenges the ideologies behind much popular media, especially media aimed at children, which the Press will be putting back into print with a new preface.

Blake's Therapy is a whirlwind ride through the desires of one man to find something real in a virtual world. After suffering a mental breakdown, Graham Blake checks into the Corporate Life Therapy Institute, where the self-assured, silver-tongued Dr. Carl Tolgate has prepared a strange, shocking, and erotic treatment. Now Blake must find out, before it is too late, who is controlling his life, his company's future, and his own heart. A work o...

A new Spanish edition of a popular Ocean classic commemorating another day of terror and tragedy.

Generally, it's the tortured who turn into torturers.

Cuando los lobos se apoderan del país de los conejos, el jefe de la manada se proclama rey y anuncia que los conejos ya no existen. ¿Conseguirán unos simpáticos y traviesos conejos desbaratar los planes del arrogante rey de los lobos?

El 16 de octubre de 1998 el mundo se despertó con una noticia sorprendente: el general Augusto Pinochet, que se recuperaba de una operación de espalda en una clínica londinense, había sido arrestado por Scotiand Yard en Inglaterra y esperaba su extradición a España bajo la acusación de tortura y genocidio. A la detención siguió uno de los juicios más importantes de los últimos cincuenta años, que muchos han considerado el avance más importante...

A classic text that challenges the ideologies behind much popular media, especially media aimed at children, which the Press will be putting back into print with a new preface.

Keine Beschreibung.

A powerfully argued appeal to Americans to gain greater understanding of our place in the world.

Told almost exclusively through dialogue, Konfidenz opens with a woman entering a hotel room and receiving a call from a mysterious stranger who seems to know everything about her and the reasons why she has fled her homeland. Over the next nine hours he tells her many disturbing things about her lover (who may be in great danger), the political situation in which they are enmeshed, and his fantasies of her. A terse political allegory that cha...

Mascara delves into the dark terrain of identity and disguise when the lives of three people collide. A nameless man with a face no one remembers has the devastating ability to see and capture on film the brutal truths lurking inside each person he encounters. Oriana, a beautiful woman with the memory of an innocent child, is relentlessly pursued by mysterious figures from her past. Doctor Mavirelli is a brilliant and power-hungry plastic surg...

Set in a Greek village in 1942, and purportedly written from his imagination by a Danish man before he was picked up by the Gestapo and not seen again, here is Ariel Dorfman's haunting and universal parable of individual courage in the face of political oppression. Widows forms a testament to the disappeared—those living under totalitarian regimes the world over, who are taken away for "questioning" and never return.One by one, the bodies of m...

A collection of poetry bearing witness to atrocities committed by the Chilean dictatorship, describing the realities and aftermath of terror.

Blake's Therapy is a whirlwind ride through the desires of one man to find something real in a virtual world. After suffering a mental breakdown, Graham Blake checks into the Corporate Life Therapy Institute, where the self-assured, silver-tongued Dr. Carl Tolgate has prepared a strange, shocking, and erotic treatment. Now Blake must find out, before it is too late, who is controlling his life, his company's future, and his own heart. A work o...