Dorfman, Ariel
Dorfman, Ariel ( 1942 – ),dramatist, was born in Argentina but was a Chilean citizen, until the accession to power of General Pinochet in 1973 exiled him to America, where he became research professor of history and Latin American studies at Duke University, North Carolina, in 1992 . He achieved worldwide success with his English-language Death and the Maiden ( 1990 ), about the attempts of a Latin American torture victim to restore her self-respect and ailing marriage by punishing the doctor she believes presided over her suffering. Subsequent plays include the complex Reader ( 1995 ) about a censor who discovers that the subversive book he wants to ban describes his own life, and Widows ( 1996 ), written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, and involving the peasant mothers, wives, and daughters of men murdered by a military regime. Dorfman has also published a book of cultural criticism, How to...
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