Exorcising Terror: the Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet.By Ariel Dorfman Ariel Dorfman (born May 6 1942 Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. Dorfman, who is Jewish, was born in Argentina but his family moved to the United States shortly after his birth, and then moved to Chile Seven Stories. 244 pages. $11.05. Pinochet the traitor TRAITOR, crimes. One guilty of treason. 2. The punishment of a traitor is death. , Pinochet the murderer, Pinochet the prisoner, Pinochet the word of "dreaded syllables." These are among some of the dishonorable dis·hon·or·a·ble adj. 1. Characterized by or causing dishonor or discredit. 2. Lacking integrity; unprincipled. dis·hon names that move through Ariel Dorfman's book Exorcising Terror. In more than 200 pages, Dorfman adeptly chronicles Pinochet's trial in England while contemplating the precedents it sets and the troubled memories it unearths. It is a firsthand first·hand adj. Received from the original source: firsthand information. first account, interweaving the stories of those who had the misfortune to cross the general's path with those who wish now to bring him to justice. Even though the general was allowed to go free, Dorfman says his trial created the possibility that the Chilean people will finally come to terms with the regime's brutal past. No, there will not be a Pinochet the convicted, but as the book's hopeful ending suggests, perhaps there will one day be a Pinochet the forgotten. |
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