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Ariel Dorfman
In 1789 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits the grave of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, looking for a sign, a signal, an answer to an enigma that has haunted him since…
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A critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman.
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In his new poetry collection, renowned writer Ariel Dorfman expresses the power of love and its persistence beyond death, and indicts–through the voices of deceased historical figures such as Christopher…
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Three powerful political plays in one volume - with a substantial introduction by the author.
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–can’t sleep. Faced with difficult choices, Blake turns to bizarre therapy to restore his clean conscience .
Faced with difficult downsizing choices, sleepless CEO Graham Blake turns to the Corporate Life Therapy Institute, where the silver-tongued Dr. Tolgate promises, for $3 million, to restore a clean conscience…
This dark comedy by Dorfman–called one of the greatest Latin American novelists by Newsweek –about a young 23-year-old man who returns from an exile in Manhattan to his native Chil…
A new edition of Ariel Dorfmans powerful cultural critique of popular works such as the Donald Duck comics, the Babar childrens books, and Readers Digest magazine.
Focusing on his repeated escapes from death during a military coup in Chile, an acclaimed Latin American novelist and Chilean expatriate traces influences of American and Latin American culture, politics…
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…
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…
Dorfman’s award-winning play is set in a fictional South American country that has recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head a commission that will investigate…
Covers one of the most important human rights trials of the last 50 years, every twist and turn of the four-year-old trial in Great Britain, Spain, and Chile. For the…
A chorus of first-person accounts from the international front lines of the human rights struggle.
How does the sordid story behind human zoos which flourished in nineteenth century Europe connect to a boy’s life a hundred years later?
Is the sordid story behind human zoos that flourished in Europe in the nineteenth century connected somehow to a boy’s life a hundred years later?
Ariel Dorfman’s latest collection is an emotionally raw yet measured assessment of the United States after the election of Donald Trump, highlighting the troubling parallels between Trump and repressive regimes…
A Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker
A billionaire Holocaust survivor hires a writer to uncover the truth of Salvador Allende's death, and they must confront their own…
Originally published: London: Nick Hearn Books, 1991.
A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Ariel Dorfman’s Hope, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
Renowned writer and activist Ariel Dorfman expresses the power of love and its persistence beyond death in this Spanish-language poetry collection, in which he indicts–through the voices of deceased historical…
Acclaimed author and human-rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivers a memoir excavating, for the first time, his profound and provocative journey through revolution and exile.
A Study Guide for Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Jessica Mohr
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Spanische Sprache, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 2,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit t Erlangen-N rnberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Paulina Salas lebt in Ariel Dorfmans Drama La…
Contains WIDOWS, a parable of courage and resilience in the face of totalitarian oppression, and LAST WALTZ IN SANTIAGO, a collection of poems written on the themes of exile and…
A powerfully argued appeal to Americans to gain greater understanding of our place in the world.
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…
John Gibler
Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities killed, injured, and disappeared scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime.
The living risk losing everything, but what they hold on to - love, faith, hope, truth - might change the world. It is this subversive possibility that speaks through these…
The uproariously funny, depressingly on-point story of a mean and narcissistic king.
Ariel Dorfman,Armand Mattelart
Censored and condemned, this is a Marxist critique of how our favourite cartoons are vehicles for capitalist ideology.
Christopher Hitchens
Drawing on firsthand testimony, previously unpublished documentation and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, Hitchens mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and…
A political novel by the author of Widows , The Last Song of Manuel Sendero and Mascara , which describes the tense and chaotic days before Chile’s military coup in…
Draws together Dorfman’s critical essays on contemporary Latin American writing
Vera Schmitz
Unterrichtsentwurf aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Didaktik Spanisch, Universitat Hamburg, Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Fachdidaktik Spanisch: Literatur im Spanischunterricht, 5 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Folgenden soll…
A collection of poetry bearing witness to atrocities committed by the Chilean dictatorship, describing the realities and aftermath of terror.
Ariel Dorfman,Tony Kushner
Realizing that someone has been watching her when an anonymous caller reveals detailed knowledge about her private life, a woman becomes further distraught when the caller offers disturbing information about…
Delves into the dark terrain of identity and disguise when the lives of three people collide: the nameless man who has the devastating ability to see and capture on film…
Jacobo Timerman
A classic of world literature back in print in a Spanish-language edition. Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.
An anthology of Durham writers writing about their hometown, 27 Views of Durham creates a literary montage of the Bull City. In essays, poems, short stories, and anthem, the collection…
Tobias Tuk
Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Spanische Sprache, Literatur, Landeskunde, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Anfangs erfolgt eine kurze Zusammenfassung des Dramas und Untersuchungen zur formalen Gestaltung, um…
