Telling The Truth Through Lies; Ariel Dorfman talks about the role of art in times of war and what it will take to create a viable peace movement

From: The Independent Weekly | Date: February 19, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Years ago, when Ariel Dorfman began writing his latest play Picasso?s Closet, about the Spanish painter?s time spent in occupied Paris during World War II, he wasn?t thinking about the United States or Iraq. The poet, dramatist and chair of literature and Latin American studies at Duke University has spent most of his life writing about Chile, where he served on the cabinet of the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. In 1973, dictator Augusto Pinochet overthrew that government, tortured and killed Allende, and launched a wave of human-rights atrocities that have ...

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