Ariel Dorfman

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Lecture: To Miss, Be Missed, Missing: Exile As a Form of Disappearance.

From the NYPL Public Programs Brochure for Winter/Spring 1988:

Novelist, poet, and essayist Ariel Dorfman speaks with eloquence about the dignity of the Chilean people and their struggle against the dictatorship of General Pinochet, whose 1973 coup overthrew the socialist government of President Allende. An outspoken cultural critic, Dorfman was exiled after the coup, and was not allowed back for ten years. He now divides his time between the United States, where he teaches international affairs and South American literature at Duke University, and Chile. `I want to maintain an independent voice there,' he explains. He has written over 17 books that have been translated into 21 different languages, among them Widows, The Empire's New Clothes, and the novel The Last Song of Manuel Sendero. His latest book, The Last Waltz in Santiago: And Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance, will be published this spring by Viking. Dorfman's optimism is "born out of having gone through the inferno." His creed is based upon love: `Each time two hands touch, Pinochet grows weaker.'"

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