内容简介
Hailed by Salman Rushdie as "one of the most important voicescoming out of Latin America," the best-selling author and humanrights activist Ariel Dorfman delivers a memoir excavating for thefirst time his profound and provocative journey as an exile.
In September 1973, the military took power inChile, and Ariel Dorfman, allied to deposed president SalvadorAllende, was forced to flee for his life. Feeding on Dreams is thestory of the transformative decades of exile that followed. Dorfmanportrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, thepersonal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations fromBuenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet’s death squads, to safehouses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, hischildhood home. And then, seventeen years after he was forced toleave, there is a yearned-for return to Chile, with an unimaginableoutcome. The toll on Dorfman’s wife and two sons, the "earthquakeof language" that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning ofhis allegiance to past and party—all these crucibles of a life inexile are revealed with wry and startling honesty.
In September 1973, the military took power inChile, and Ariel Dorfman, allied to deposed president SalvadorAllende, was forced to flee for his life. Feeding on Dreams is thestory of the transformative decades of exile that followed. Dorfmanportrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, thepersonal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations fromBuenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet’s death squads, to safehouses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, hischildhood home. And then, seventeen years after he was forced toleave, there is a yearned-for return to Chile, with an unimaginableoutcome. The toll on Dorfman’s wife and two sons, the "earthquakeof language" that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning ofhis allegiance to past and party—all these crucibles of a life inexile are revealed with wry and startling honesty.