Chile: The Other September 11: An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup
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The selection combines moving personal accounts with a political/historical overview of the coup’s significance, featuring Ariel Dorfman's poignant essay, The last September 11” and President Allende's last radio broadcast.
Ariel Dorfman
Born in 1942 in Argentina, ARIEL DORFMAN as a young academic and writer served as a cultural adviser to President Salvador Allende from 1970 to 1973. During this time he became know more broadly as co-author of How to Read Donald Duck (1971) from which he includes snippets in the Tarzan chapter of Hard Rain, his first novel (1973). Hard Rain won a literary prize in Argentina that allowed him and his family to leave Chile after the Pinochet coup. In exile, Dorfman has become famous as a prolific writer and fierce critic of Pinochet and other despots. He defines himself as an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist (Hard Rain, The Last Song of Manuel Sendero, Mascara) , playwright (Death and the Maiden, Widows, Reader), essayist (The Empire's Old Clothes, Someone Writes to the Future, Heading South, Looking North), academic, and human rights activist.
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Reviews for Chile
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wow this book was great! It is a small, but powerful collection of first hand sources that document the fall of Chile's democratically elected Socialist government. The first half is better than the second half, as the latter is compromised of two speeches: one by President Allende's daughter and one by Fidel Castro. I would have given the book five stars if Castro's speech didn't fill up so much of the precious space in this less-than-100-page book. Nevertheless, please read this and consider it your doorway into this important part of 20th century American (as in the Americas) history.