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Feeding on Dreams

Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
by Ariel Dorfman
Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile. Houghton Harcourt. Sept. 2011. 368p. ISBN 9780547549460. $27.
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Novelist, poet, essayist, playwright, and filmmaker, Dorfman fled Chile after the coup that put Gen. Augusto Pinochet in power. His works, as exemplified by the play Death and the Maiden, which concerned an encounter between a torture victim and the man she believes tortured her and was made into a film directed by Roman Polanski, always carry a political edge. This memoir recalls what exile has been like for Dorfman and his family, as they ran from Santiago to Buenos Aires, Paris, Amsterdam, and, finally, to America, where Dorfman grew up. And it revisits the moment when Dorfman could return to Chile. Likely a forthright and affecting book.
Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , May 01, 2011
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