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Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman

Walter Hines Page Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Literature
Literature
adorfman@duke.edu
Box 90670, 1316 Campus Drive, 101 Friedl, Durham, NC 27708-0670
1316 Campus Drive, 101 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Will Paulina ever rest?

Journal Article Index on Censorship · September 1, 2023 Full text Cite

A ghost-written tale of love

Journal Article Index on Censorship · April 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Mark But This "Oh stay, three lives ..."

Journal Article MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW · 2020 Cite

Advice for Maduro

Journal Article NATION · March 11, 2019 Link to item Cite

The Impostor: A True Story

Journal Article NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS · 2019 Cite

What she has seen

Journal Article Sinn und Form · November 1, 2018 Cite

WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN

Journal Article SINN UND FORM · 2018 Cite

Chile: Now More Than Ever

Journal Article NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS · 2018 Cite

Letters to Lord Ganesha

Journal Article Tikkun · 2018 Full text Cite

Finding julio gamboa

Journal Article Antioch Review · September 1, 2017 Full text Cite

A RADICAL FAITH The Assassination of Sister Maura

Other NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · 2016 Cite

Separated at birth

Journal Article Nation · April 6, 2015 Cite

Je suis José Carrasco

Journal Article Index on Censorship · March 15, 2015 Full text Cite

Allegro (Spanish)

Book · 2015 Allegro is narrated by Mozart during three moments of his life (as a child in London, as an anguished young man in Paris and as someone who sees death approaching in Leipzig) The novel is structured as something of a detective story, Mozart trying to find ... Cite

The Rags of Time

Journal Article LITERARY REVIEW · 2015 Cite

Casting away: A new short story by the acclaimed human rights writer

Journal Article Index on Censorship · September 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Beyond the Legendary Mandela

Internet Publication · December 8, 2013 Cite

When Mandela Became Real to Me

Internet Publication · December 8, 2013 Cite

The Struggle for Chile’s Future

Journal Article The Nation · December 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Beyond the Legendary Mandela

Journal Article Sunday Times in South Africa · December 2013 Featured Publication Cite

When Mandela Became Real to Me

Journal Article New Republic · December 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Chile elections: three candidates, three fathers and an awful lot of history

Journal Article The Guardian · November 2013 Featured Publication Cite

A Way Out for Egypt? Lessons from the Chilean Plebiscite

Journal Article The Nation · October 2013 Featured Publication http://www.thenation.com/article/176554/does-chilean-experience-offer-way-out-egypt#sthash.PJ9dITZd.dpuf ... Cite

9/11: The Day Everything Changed, in Chile

Internet Publication · September 8, 2013 Cite

9/11: The Day Everything Changed, in Chile

Journal Article New York Times · September 2013 Cite

"My First Play"

Journal Article · July 2013 Cite

My First Play

Chapter · July 2013 Cite

Despedida y amanecer

Internet Publication · May 15, 2013 Link to item Cite

Artistic freedom in China

Journal Article TLS - The Times Literary Supplement · May 3, 2013 Cite

Despedida y amanecer

Journal Article Pagina Doce · May 2013 Cite

Crossing the Street in Jaipur

Journal Article Guernica Magazine · May 2013 http://www.guernicamag.com/features/crossing-the-street-in-jaipur/ ... Cite

Crossing the Street in Jaipur

Internet Publication · May 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

"No Ha Lugar" and "Traduccíon Simultánea"

Journal Article · February 2013 Cite

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Journal Article Brick: A Literary Journal · 2013 Cite

"Una candela para Kerala"

Journal Article · 2013 Cite

afterword

Other · 2013 Cite

afterword

Chapter · 2013 Cite

It’s a Small World

Journal Article Boston Review · December 2012 Cite

It's a Small World

Other Boston Review · December 2012 Cite

"Despedida y amanecer" and "Farewell and Dawn"

Journal Article · November 2012 Cite

Foreword to the Twelve Edition

Chapter · April 2012 Cite

Honor Among Thieves

Journal Article The Antioch Review · 2012 Cite

Out of the dark

Journal Article Index on Censorship · January 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Matta el travieso

Journal Article Pagina/12 · November 2011 Cite

Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile

Journal Article The Nation · November 2011 Cite

Death and the Maiden

Book · October 13, 2011 This 20th-anniversary edition was published alongside the play's West End revival in 2011. ‘Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. ... Cite

Un purgatorio en busca de autor

Journal Article El Pais · October 2011 Link to item Cite

How Harold Pinter's Kindness Saved My Play

Journal Article The Daily Telegraph · October 2011 Written for 20th anniversary revival of "Death and the Maiden" at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London ... Link to item Cite

Death and the Maiden's Haunting Relevance

Journal Article London Guardian · October 2011 Link to item Cite

Epitaph for Another September 11th

Journal Article The Nation · September 2011 Link to item Cite

My Lost Library

Journal Article Chronicle of Higher Education · September 2011 Link to item Cite

The Other 9-11

Journal Article Granta · September 2011 Link to item Cite

Cheney and Justice for Torture Victims

Internet Publication · September 2011 Link to item Cite

The Last Copy

Other The Atlantic Monthly · August 2011 Cite

Truth telling and justice

Chapter · June 2, 2011 Cite

Losing Superman

Journal Article Los Angeles Times · May 2011 Link to item Cite

Ghosts of Chile

Journal Article Los Angeles Times · March 2011 Link to item Cite

Conversations with a myth

Journal Article Nation · January 10, 2011 Cite

Nelson Mandela: Conversations with a Myth

Journal Article The Nation · January 2011 Cite

Why trapped miners 'unwilling to die in darkness

Internet Publication · September 8, 2010 Link to item Cite

Asylum

Other Playboy · April 1, 2010 Cite

Solidarity can help Chile prevail

Internet Publication · March 2, 2010 Link to item Cite

Solidarity can help Chile prevail

Journal Article CNN.com · 2010 Cite

Introduction to Empire's Old Clothes

Chapter · 2010 New introduction to the reissue of Dorfman, A., The Empire's Old Clothes, Pantheon Books: New York, 1983. ... Cite

Introduction to Empire's Old Clothes

Chapter · 2010 New introduction to the reissue of Dorfman, A., The Empire's Old Clothes, Pantheon Books: New York, 1983. ... Cite

Shaken to the Core

Journal Article Los Angeles Times · 2010 Cite

El otro lado

Other · November 2009 Cite

Hope for Latin America: Obama's Nobel

Internet Publication · October 20, 2009 Link to item Cite

Forever: A Letter to Obama

Internet Publication · October 9, 2009 Link to item Cite

Forum: Make Believe

Journal Article PEN America Journal · October 2009 Cite

Augusto Boal: 1931-2009 Tribute

Journal Article American Theatre Magazine · September 2009 Cite

Innocent Passage

Other · July 2009 Cite

Innocent Passage

Other Freedom Anthology · July 2009 Cite

Picasso’s Closet

Journal Article The Art Bulletin · March 2009 Cite

Forever: A Letter to Obama

Journal Article Huffington Post · 2009 Cite

Hope for Latin America: Obama’s Nobel

Journal Article Huffington Post · 2009 Cite

Picasso’s Closet

Other The Nasher Museum of Art · 2009 Cite

Todavía viendo a Tencha

Journal Article El Pais · 2009 Cite

Un mensaje para Obama

Journal Article El Pais · 2009 Cite

Heroínas imperfectas

Journal Article El Pais · 2009 Cite

Sobre Patiperros y Manzanas

Journal Article El Pais · 2009 Cite

Interventions: Picasso's closet

Journal Article Art Bulletin · January 1, 2009 Full text Cite

Security

Other · July 2008 Story published in a special limited edition with proceeds going to the Festival of Literatures Charitable Trust. ... Cite

My Paulina, My Country

Internet Publication · June 11, 2008 Link to item Cite

Death and the Maiden

Journal Article The Guardian (UK) · 2008 Cite

Waving the Star-Spanglish Banner

Journal Article · 2008 Cite

Are we really so fearful?

Journal Article · 2008 Cite

My Paulina, My Country

Journal Article Salon.com · 2008 Cite

Reader

Other · 2008 Cite

Widows

Other · 2008 Cite

The Other Side

Other · 2008 Cite

Gringos

Other · 2008 Cite

Are we really so fearful?

Journal Article · 2008 Cite

Reader

Chapter · 2008 Cite

Widows

Chapter · 2008 Cite

The Other Side

Chapter · 2008 Cite

Gringos

Chapter · 2008 Cite

Gringos

Other Visions from Finis Terrae · 2008 Cite

Blake's Therapy (screenplay)

Book · 2008 Wrote screenplay version of my novel "Blake's Therapy" with Rodrigo Dorfman for Ventazul Film Productions, producer Salma Hayek. ... Cite

A Vicious Circle

Journal Article The Guardian (UK) · 2008 Link to item Cite

Death and the Maiden

Journal Article The Guardian (UK) · 2008 Link to item Cite

Barack Obama, next president?

Journal Article Le Monde · 2008 Cite

El Poeta como Presidente

Journal Article El Pais · 2008 Link to item Cite

Una profecía desde Carolina del Norte

Journal Article El Pais · 2008 Cite

Mi Paulina, mi pais

Journal Article El Pais · 2008 Link to item Cite

The Temptations and Delights of Writing for an Opera

Journal Article Opera Journal · 2008 Cite

Der Dichter-Präsident

Journal Article Frankfurter Rundschau · 2008 Cite

Security

Journal Article Ex auditu · January 1, 2008 Link to item Cite

Gringos

Other · June 2007 Cite

Stew

Other A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer · June 2007 Cite

Gringos

Other The O. Henry Prize Stories · June 2007 Cite

Goodbye to a Grandfather

Other Sekai · March 2007 Cite

Una semana con Gabo

Other El Pais · 2007 Cite

Use What You Learned

Other The Chronicle of Higher Education · 2007 Cite

What bush missed in Chile

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · December 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Are We Really So Fearful?

Other Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · September 6, 2006 El Pais, Pagina Doce, Le Monde ... Cite

Stew

Journal Article Daedalus · September 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Waving the Star Spanglish Banner

Other Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · May 7, 2006 El Pais, Guardian Read as radio commentary on Hispanic Communications Network ... Cite

Homeland Security Ate my Speech

Internet Publication · January 15, 2006 Link to item Cite

What Bush Missed in Chile

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · 2006 Cite

Destination: Chile, A Geography Gone Mad

Other Salon.com Literary Guide to the World · 2006 Cite

Homeland Security Ate my Speech

Journal Article TomDispatch.com · 2006 Cite

Picasso’s Closet

Other NPRs Talk of the Nation · 2006 Cite

Taking the Cinematic view of Latin American Politics

Other San Francisco Chronicle · 2006 Cite

Picasso’s Closet

Other · 2006 Cite

Stew

Other Daedalus · 2006 Originally written as a monologue for Eve Ensler's VDay production "A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and a Prayer: Writers on Violence against Women and Girls." Directed by Oskar Eustis at the Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City. ... Cite

Gringos

Other Subtropics 1 · 2006 Cite

Una llamada de auxilio para el año nuevo

Journal Article El Pais · 2006 Cite

A Morse Code Signal for 2006

Journal Article San Francisco Chronicle · 2006 Cite

It's No Joke Anymore

Journal Article Los Angeles Times · 2006 Cite

Out of Fear

Journal Article London Guardian · 2006 Cite

El caso del 'taliban chino'

Journal Article El Pais · 2006 Cite

Mission Akkomplished: Mayday for Comrade Bush

Journal Article The New Statesman · 2006 Cite

Waving the Star Spanglish Banner

Journal Article Washington Post · 2006 Cite

Are We Really So Fearful?

Journal Article Washington Post · 2006 Cite

The Half-Life of a Despot

Journal Article The New York Times · 2006 Cite

Spitting on the Dead Dictator

Journal Article Los Angeles Times · 2006 Cite

Juegos de la memoria

Journal Article El Pais · October 2005 Cite

Burning City

Book · June 2005 Cite

On Asylum

Journal Article SAQ · 2005 Cite

Sube a Nacer conmigo

Journal Article Pen America: Metamorphoses · 2005 Cite

Footnotes to a Double Life

Journal Article · 2005 Cite

The Piper of Our Times

Journal Article · 2005 Cite

A Morse Code for 2006

Journal Article OpenDemocracy.net · 2005 Cite

Ariel Dorfman speaks about Purgatorio

Other WUNC The State of Things · 2005 Cite

Chilean writer brings his plays to the world

Other The Santiago Times · 2005 Cite

News Hour with Jim Lehrer

Other PBS · 2005 Cite

Two Dorfmans, one new novel

Other Durham Herald Sun · 2005 Cite

Father son team tell hard tale of youth

Other News and Observer · 2005 Cite

Ariel and Joaquin Dorfman radio interview

Other WUNC State of Things · 2005 Cite

Radio Interview

Other What’s the Word? · 2005 Cite

Salvaging Memories in Santiago

Other Duke Magazine · 2005 Cite

Interview about Gen. Augusto Pinochet

Other BBC The World Tonight · 2005 Cite

Subverting Narrative: An Interview with Ariel Dorfman

Other Contemporary Theatre Review · 2005 Cite

Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark

Other Ebenezer Baptist Church · 2005 Cite

The Other Side

Other Manhattan Theatre Club · 2005 Cite

Behind the sunglasses

Journal Article Index on Censorship · January 1, 2005 Full text Cite

Echoes of King's dream ring true in Chile

Journal Article San Francisco Chronicle · 2005 Cite

Chilean writer brings his plays to the world

Journal Article Santiago Times · 2005 Cite

Los cincos minutes de John Paul II

Journal Article El Pais · 2005 Cite

Adieu to a Philosopher: Remembering Sartre

Journal Article Los Angeles Times · 2005 Cite

Love Song for London

Journal Article Washington Post · 2005 Cite

An Einstein Strings Theory

Journal Article Los Angeles Times · 2005 Cite

Forum: Poetry and torture

Journal Article WORLD LITERATURE TODAY · 2005 Cite

The last temptation of Ivan Karamazov

Journal Article Queens Quarterly · December 1, 2004 Is torture ever justified? That is the dirty question left out of the universal protestations of disgust, revulsion, and shame that have greeted the release of photos showing American soldiers tormenting prisoners in Iraq. It is a question that was most un ... Cite

Para além do medo

Book · November 2004 Cite

The Struggle for America's Soul

Internet Publication · October 27, 2004 Link to item Cite

The Struggle for America’s Soul

Journal Article TomDispatch.com · October 2004 Cite

My Friend, the Super Man

Journal Article The Observer (London) · October 2004 Cite

La inteligencia de Kerry

Journal Article L'Unita · October 2004 Cite

Juegos de la memoria: Las elecciones en Estados Unidos

Journal Article El Pais · October 2004 Cite

Brainy Candidates Need Not Apply

Journal Article Los Angeles Times · October 2004 Cite

The Rabbits’ Rebellion

Book · September 2004 Cite

Mascara

Book · September 2004 Reprint, with new afterward by J.M.Coetzee. ... Cite

Yuxtaposiciones

Journal Article El Pais · September 2004 Cite

Why Chile is Hopeful

Journal Article New York Times · September 2004 Cite

The Black Hole

Journal Article · August 2004 Cite

The Black Hole

Journal Article · August 2004 Cite

Emergencias

Journal Article El Pais · August 2004 Cite

Footnotes to a Double Life

Journal Article · July 2004 Cite

Footnotes to a Double Life

Journal Article · July 2004 Cite

Are There Times When We Have to Accept Torture?

Journal Article The Guardian (U.K.) · May 2004 Cite

La question qu'Ivan Karamazov ne pose pas

Journal Article Le Monde · May 2004 Cite

Are There Times When We Have to Accept Torture?

Journal Article The Guardian (U.K.) · May 2004 Cite

Neruda frente al terror en Madrid

Journal Article El Pais · March 2004 Cite

Un almuerzo con Kerry

Journal Article El Pais · March 2004 Cite

Words that Pulse Among Madrid's Dead

Journal Article Los Angeles Times · March 2004 Cite

(Play)

Book · 2004 Cite

The Other Side

Other · 2004 Cite

Foreword by Ariel Dorfman

Book · January 1, 2004 It is comforting to watch the trials afterwards. After the bombs and the machetes. After the war of brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor. After the torn bodies and the burnt-out villages. After the faces of grief and the faces of those who ... Full text Cite

Fear and the Word

Journal Article Utne Reader · 2004 Cite

The True 'Desaparecidos'

Journal Article Chronicle of Higher Education · September 5, 2003 The article discusses how the relatives of the disappeared are handling us a model for how other humans can use the forces of globalization to make this world a less threatening home for us all. When grieving relatives in places like Chile, Guatemala showe ... Cite

Konfidenz

Book · 2003 Cite

The hooligan's return - A memoir

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · 2003 Cite

The nomads of language

Journal Article American Scholar · December 1, 2002 Cite

Blake’s Therapy

Book · 2001 Cite

Konfidenz

Other · 2000 Cite

The Nanny and the Iceberg

Book · January 1999 Cite

La feroz lealtad de Antonio

Journal Article Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana · 1999 Full text Cite

Dead Line

Other · December 1998 Cite

Who’ Who

Other · 1998 Cite

Widows (play)

Book · 1997 Cite

My House Is On Fire

Other · 1997 Cite

Reader

Book · 1995 Cite

Konfidenz

Book · 1995 Cite

Reader

Other · 1995 Cite

Dead and alive

Journal Article History Workshop Journal · December 1, 1992 Full text Cite

DEAD AND ALIVE (REPRINTED FROM THE NATION, 1990)

Journal Article HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL · September 1, 1992 Link to item Cite

Death and the Maiden

Book · 1992 Fireside Book Club, main selection ... Cite

One true word is worth five thousand lies

Journal Article Jewish Quarterly Review · January 1, 1992 Full text Cite

'WARNING SIGNALS'

Journal Article QUEENS QUARTERLY · 1992 Cite

Hard Rain (novel)

Book · 1991 Cite

THE LAST DAYS OF SHAKESPEARE,WILLIAM - KOCIANCICH,V

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · 1991 Cite

BURYING ALLENDE - DEATH AND REBIRTH IN CHILE

Journal Article NATION · October 8, 1990 Link to item Cite

A matter of time

Journal Article Rethinking Marxism · January 1, 1990 Full text Cite

'FADO ALEXANDRINO' - LOBOANTUNES,A

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · 1990 Cite

THE 'NOTEBOOK' - KRISTOF,A, SHERIDAN,A, TRANSLATOR

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · 1989 Cite

Mascara

Book · 1988 Cite

Trademark Territory

Journal Article Index on Censorship · January 1, 1988 Full text Cite

'MASCARA'

Journal Article HISPAMERICA-REVISTA DE LITERATURA · 1988 Cite

THE 'LIGHTNING OF AUGUST' - IBARGUENGOITIA,J, DELCORRAL,I, TRANSLATOR

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · 1986 Cite

'PLAY BY PLAY' - GOLDEMBERG,I

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · 1985 Cite

Widows (novel)

Book · 1983 Cite

Missing

Book · 1982 Cite

With the family

Journal Article Review (United Kingdom) · January 1, 1980 Full text Cite

Myth as time and word

Journal Article Review (United Kingdom) · January 1, 1975 Full text Cite

Where He Fell

Other McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Cite