Ariel Dorfman is the author of Death and the Maiden and, more recently, the novels Cautivos and The Compensation Bureau. He divides his time between Chile and Durham, N.C., where he is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Literature at Duke University.
Ariel Dorfman talks morality and the legacy of a literary giant
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