{"id":1420430,"date":"2023-12-31T06:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T06:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=309355"},"modified":"2024-01-07T06:55:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T06:55:15","slug":"suicide-and-the-novelist-how-did-salvador-allende-really-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/31\/suicide-and-the-novelist-how-did-salvador-allende-really-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide and the Novelist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Salvador Allende.<\/p><\/div>

\r\n\r\nChilean writer Ariel Dorfman is probably best known to Americano audiences for his play Death and the Maiden<\/em>, 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\u2019s The Secrets We Keep<\/em>, 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<\/em><\/a>, which has just been re-published by OR Books.\r\n \t\t

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Salvador Allende.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman is probably best known to Americano audiences for his play Death and the Maiden<\/em>, 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\u2019s The Secrets We Keep<\/em>, 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<\/em><\/a>, which has just been re-published by OR Books.<\/p>\n

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