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	Ariel Dorfman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is a Jewish Chilean novelist, dramatist, essayist, and human rights activist.
		Dorfman was born in Argentina but his family moved to the United States shortly after his birth, returning to Chile in 1954.
		Ariel Dorfman is the Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Professor of Latin American Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ariel_Dorfman (256 words)

	WowEssays.com - Trials And Tribulations Of Ariel Dorfman
		Ariel Dorfman was exiled from Chile because of his writings, and struggled with his writing in Paris.
		Dorfman said, “all of my poems are ways of giving voices to those who have disappeared, and those who are left behind; I am a bridge between them.
		Dorfman said, “This story describes the events that led to the fall of dictatorship.” (Dorfman “Rebellion” 462-474) Dorfman’s views on political oppression, the missing and Latin America caused him many trials and tribulations, but in the end they helped him become a significant, acclaimed writer of the 20th century.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/aa4/dli295.shtml (909 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ariel Dorfman (Latin American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Ariel Dorfman[Aryel´ dOrf´mAn] Pronunciation Key, 1942–;, Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, and journalist, b.
		Dorfman's family moved to the United States shortly after his birth, settling in Chile in 1954.
		Taking retribution and reconciliation as its themes, his best-known work, the play Death and the Maiden (1992), deals with political torture and its aftereffects; Dorfman also wrote the screenplay for the 1994 film.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Dorfman.html (263 words)

	Dartmouth News - Acclaimed author and playwright Ariel Dorfman to deliver keynote address - 01/03/01
		For Dorfman, this was not traveling but enduring, as his forced movement between nations, cultures, and languages left him without a place to call home or a culture he could completely define as his own.
		Dorfman explores these themes of exile and identity in many of his works.
		Dorfman was forced to flee his homeland in 1973 because he feared for his life.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~news/releases/2001/jan01/dorfman.html (594 words)

	'Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey' by Ariel Dorfman
		Because any appreciation of the rose's perfume requires the agency of the nose, and the nose communicates with the same brain that registers the name of the flower, one's perception of the rose may well be influenced by what it is called.
		Dorfman, a Chilean writer perhaps best known in the United States for his play and subsequent movie, "Death and the Maiden," is currently a professor of literature and Latin American studies at Duke University.
		This promise was discarded in later years, when Dorfman permitted himself to become "a bigamist of language," married to both of his linguistic loves.
	www.postgazette.com /books/reviews/19980621review59.asp (797 words)

	Ariel Dorfman to Speak at the Library on April 15
		Writer Ariel Dorfman, who was born in Argentina but is now a citizen of Chile, will speak at the Library of Congress at 6 p.m.
		Dorfman's numerous books have been translated into more than 30 languages and include How to Read Donald Duck (1971), The Empire's Old Clothes (1983), The Last Song of Manuel Sendero (1986), My House Is on Fire (1990), and Konfidenz (1995).
		Dorfman is a regular contributor to The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and other newspapers and journals.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/1998/98-023.html (282 words)

	The Connection.org : Chilean Writer Ariel Dorfman
		Ariel Dorfman has spent his adult life "obsessed with problems of pain and justice and redemption." Each is a Rosetta Stone, and the bilingual Chilean writer has sought to decipher them in Spanish and English, poems and plays, chiseling deep into scarred humanity, good and evil.
		Ariel Dorfman, author of "Exorcising Terror" and the collection of poetry, "In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land."
		Ariel Dorfman, it's as if I'm a bed in which these two languages are making love.
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2002/09/20020924_b_main.asp (245 words)

	BIBLIOGRAPHY on Ariel Dorfman
		"Art, authenticity, and Latin American Culture: to and Ariel Dorfman Engages in a dialog with Mario Vargas Llosa." Washington, D.C.: Wilson Center, 1981.
		Meiselas, Susan Texts: Dorfman, Ariel and Marco Antonio of the Parra.
		Dorfman, Ariel and Manuel Jofré® Superman and its friends of the soul.
	www.geocities.com /reza_bagheri_w/Dorfeman.htm (910 words)

	CONTEXT: Issue No. 15
		riel Dorfman is a Chilean novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, journalist, and human-rights activist.
		Dorfman was born in Argentina in 1942 to Jewish immigrants.
		Sophia A. McClennen interviewed him via telephone as part of the research for her forthcoming book on his work, Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope, to be published by Duke University Press in 2005.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no15/Dorfman.html (2477 words)

	Ariel Dorfman Speaks at Perkins Library on 14 September
		Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies, opens the Friends of the Duke University Libraries Engaging Faculty series for 2004/2005 with a lecture on Tuesday, 14 September, at 4:00 p.m.
		Dorfman’s talk, entitled “Ghost Towns and Imperial Towers: A Journey Through Many Americas,” is drawn from his two most recent books, Desert Memories: Journeys Through the Chilean North and Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations, 1980-2004.
		Ariel Dorfman is an essayist, poet, novelist and playwright.
	library.duke.edu /about/news/article/413c612a5 (174 words)

	ariel dorfman: essays4yu.com- all the best essays, best term papers, best research papers, best book reports
		In the first essay, author Ariel Dorfman focuses on the specialized needs of a growing segment of the population — immigrants and their first generation American children.
		Dorfman is critical of the prevailing “immersion” method used to teach immigrant children.
		Dorfman, a supporter of bilingualism, believes that being ambidextrous in at least two languages benefits both the individual and the rest of American society.
	www.essays4yu.com /term-papers/66057/ariel-dorfman.html (318 words)

	Powell's Books - Heading south, looking north :a bilingual journey by Ariel Dorfman
		Ariel Dorfman has been hailed as one of the "greatest living Latin American novelists" and "a storyteller of almost mythic intensity".
		Interwoven with the remarkable story of how he switched languages and cultures — not once, but three times — is a day-by-day account of his multiple escapes from death during a military takeover in Chile.
		Dorfman filters these events through his dual and hybrid life speaking, reading, thinking at times in Spanish, at times English.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=16-0374168628-2 (171 words)

	Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature; Professor of Latin American Studies; Spanish
		Ariel Dorfman, (adorfman@duke.edu), (http://www.adorfman.duke.edu/), Walter Hines Page Research professor of Literature and Latin American Studies in the Center for International Studies, and Professor, Romance Studies.
		The film Death and the Maiden was co-written and co-produced by Professor Dorfman and directed by Roman Polanski.
		Professor Dorfman's newest projects include the staging of Purgatorio, another play, on Broadway in 2004 and The Other Side, which will premiere in Tokyo's New National Theatre in April 2004 and will then open in England directed by Sir Peter Hall.
	fds.duke.edu /db/aas/Romance/faculty/adorfman (463 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Death and the Maiden : Tie-In Edition (Plays, Penguin) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ariel Dorfman was a Chilean exile who feared that he might "disappear" if he attempted to live and work under the Pinochet dictatorship.
		In the end it is a mystery to whether or not she killed the doctor, but when she sees his face in the end, while listening to the song he played while raping her, she can merely stare and look away.
		Playwright Ariel Dorfman pits his characters' heads against their hearts, and the result is a play that is as exciting intellectually as it is emotionally.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140246843?v=glance (1474 words)

	Death and the Maiden - Ariel Dorfman - Penguin Group (USA)
		Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy.
		Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda.
		But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man—the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140246843,00.html (98 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Ariel Dorfman on the struggle for America’s soul
		As Ariel Dorfman wrote in an essay collected in his new book Other Septembers, Many Americas, sometime before September 11th -- 1973, not 2001 -- he took to the streets of Santiago with other Chilean demonstrators crying out, "It can't happen here!" But, of course, it did happen there on that very September 11th.
		Ariel described vividly the way de Brunhoff in his elegant, oversized picture books had tortured history into the shape of a colonial tale that fit well with the French imperial mission civilatrice.
		Ariel Dorfman, the Chilean writer, holds the Walter Hines Page Chair at Duke University.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=1939 (1679 words)

	Dorfman, Ariel on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Writer Ariel Dorfman Addresses Themes of Healing, Loss and Justice in Two New Books.
		What do Ariel Dorfman, James Nachtwey and Frederick Wiseman have in common?
		Ariel Dorfman desconcertado: "Nunca estuve en las listas para la FIL".(autor; Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara)(TT: Ariel Dorfman is disconcerted: "I was never a participant in FIL".)(TA: author;...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Dorfman.asp (433 words)

	Ariel Dorfman Lecture at Austin College
		Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, will give the Austin College Distinguished Lecture for the fall, at 11am, on Thursday, October 5, 2000, in Wynne Chapel.
		Dorfman was born in Argentina, emigrated to New York as a child, fled to Chile during the McCarthy era, and was in exile from Chile for eighteen years, following the 1973 coup by dictator Augusto Pinochet.
		A longstanding activist for human rights, Dorfman has taught at the Universidad de Chile, the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of Amsterdam.
	artemis.austincollege.edu /acad/cml/pduffey/DorfmanatAC.html (253 words)

	Ariel Dorfman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ariel Dorfman, the renowned Chilean writer, will present a public lecture titled Disappearing Acts, on Tuesday July 1 at 8 pm in Lecture Theatre 2, Education Building.
		A Chilean expatriate, Ariel Dorfman is the Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, the Village Voice, and many other papers worldwide.
		Dr Dorfman will speak at the Grahamstown Festival as well as give lectures in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/dpa/monpaper/97-no18/ariel.htm (159 words)

	Death and the Maiden Summary & Essays - Ariel Dorfman
		Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden is a moral thriller about a woman, Paulina, who believes that a stranger who comes to her home is the doctor who, under a military dictatorship, tortured and raped her many years before.
		It was not until Chile's return to democracy in 1990 that Dorfman returned to the play and "understood...
		Dorfman's play, ultimately, did not receive as high praise in the United States as it had in England but did create enough interest to inspire a film adaptation in 1994.
	www.enotes.com /death-maiden (330 words)

	Ariel Dorfman
		Ariel Dorfman desconcertado: "Nunca estuve en las listas para la FIL".(autor; Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara)(TT: Ariel Dorfman is disconcerted: "I was never a participant in FIL".)(TA: author; International Book Fair of Guadalajara)(Entrevista) (Proceso)
		Tardía aparición de 'Máscara' en México: Ariel Dorfman intenta explicar y explicarse su novela, que sigue sorprendiéndole.
		(Dorfman, escritor chileno)(TT: Late appearance of 'Mask' in Mexico: Ariel Dorfman tries to explain his novel to everyone and to himself, which continues to surprise him) (TA: Dorfman, Chilean writer)(Interview) (Proceso)
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0760855.html (285 words)

	Ariel Dorfman Is Not Smart - Brian Wise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Those last two sentences was just my continuing the dream Dorfman was having when he wrote this abortion of a column.
		The upshot is that Dorfman has always seen a strident anti-intellectualism in the American electorate.
		It wasn’t that Stevenson arrived to the ’52 campaign reluctant to run and was therefore thought to be indecisive.
	www.americandaily.com /article/5573 (670 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Ariel Dorfman
		An interview with Ariel Dorfman by Sophia McClennen
		Ariel Dorfman was forced into exile from Chile after the 1973 coup that overthrew Salvador Allende.
		His works include the novels Widows, The last Song of Manuel Sendero, Blake's Therapy, the acclaimed memoir Heading South, Looking North, and several plays (among them Death and the Maiden, which was made into a film by Roman Polanski).
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/dorfman.html (243 words)

	Ariel Dorfman: "If Pinochet dies abroad"
		Dorfman to see if he thinks it has done justice to his words.
		[Dorfman's best-known work in the US is probably Death and the Maiden, adapted into a 1994 movie by Roman Polanski, starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley.--LG]
		Read Ariel Dorfman's October 22, 1998 BBC editorial, "Exiled writer urges Pinochet to repent," with audio clips
	www.publica.com /dorfman.html (1110 words)

	Ariel Dorfman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		father fled Argentina when Ariel Dorfman was two and took a position at the UN in New York
		in 1973, Allende is overthrown, and Dorfman is expatriated
		in 1986, Dorfman is detained at an airport and denied entry to Chile
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~bweber/courses/Dorfman.html (1028 words)

	Heading South, Looking North - Ariel Dorfman - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression.
		Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman switched languages and countries--not once, but three times--is a day-to-day account of his multiple escapes from death during Pinochet's military takeover of Chile in 1973.
		Combining eight vignettes of his life before 1973 with eight scenes from the coup, Dorfman filters these events through an engaging, hybrid consciousness.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_014028253X,00.html (94 words)

	Playbill News: Hewitt and Lopez Expected to Enter Ariel Dorfman's Purgatorio Workshop in NC
		Broadway's Tom Hewitt and Priscilla Lopez are expected to appear in the Theater Previews at Duke presentation of the premiere of Ariel Dorfman's Purgatorio in February, Playbill.com has learned.
		Dorfman's new play will be presented as a workshop production Feb. 4-6 at Reynolds Theater on the Duke campus in Durham, NC.
		Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean expatriate who holds the Walter Hines Page Chair of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/90708.html (720 words)

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