Books: Pinochet among the puppets The Nanny and the Iceberg by Ariel Dorfman Sceptre pounds 10 From: The Independent - London | Date: April 25, 1999| Author: Amanda Hopkinson | Copyright 1999 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Ariel Dorfman comes but irregularly to the UK: on the last occasion for London's literary festival The Word, and before that for the BBC screening of a film set to his poems. Both visits coincided with the Law Lords' rulings in the Pinochet case, which meant the literary interviews he was scheduled to give were upstaged by the news programmes clamouring for him to appear. General Pinochet, of course, is a topic on which Dorfman has had much to say, in life and in writing.

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