Ariel Dorfman's Power Play From: The Washington Post | Date: January 23, 1994| Author: William F. Powers | Copyright 1994 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

For a man who says he is "a sponge for pain," Ariel Dorfman is an awfully jovial sort.

The Chilean playwright, novelist and political troublemaker has spent three decades writing fiercely about torture, repression and assorted other features of life in a police state. Yet he's a hugger, a joke-teller, a boyishly avid 51-year-old in enormous Euro-nerd eyeglasses who insists on transferring morsels of food from his plate to yours just 45 minutes after you've met.

"You have to...

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