Suicide and the Novelist

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Salvador Allende.

Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman is probably best known to Americano audiences for his play Death and the Maiden, a parable about torture that Roman Polanski adapted for the big screen in 1994, starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley (there were two other versions, a 2016 Iranian reboot plus 2020’s The Secrets We Keep, with Noomi Rapace and Chris Messina). From 1970-1973 the Buenos Aires-born Dorfman served as a cultural and press advisor to Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile. In 1971 Dorfman co-authored How to Read Donald Duck, Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic, which has just been re-published by OR Books.

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[1] HOW TO READ DONALD DUCK: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic | Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart | OR Books ➤ https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/donald-duck/?mc_cid=1beba2d7d4&mc_eid=ee9ff311cb[2] ➤ http://www.counterpunch.org/my-account/[3] ➤ https://www.counterpunch.org/subscribe/[4] ➤ https://www.counterpunch.org/my-account/members-area/[5] ➤ https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/07/suicide-and-the-novelist-how-did-salvador-allende-really-die/[6] ➤ https://www.counterpunch.org/