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In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman switched languages and countries--not once, but three times--is a day-to-day account of his multiple escapes from death during Pinochet's military takeover of Chile in 1973. Combining eight vignettes of his life before 1973 with eight scenes from the coup, Dorfman filters these events through an engaging, hybrid consciousness.A beautifully written and deeply moving auto-biography by one of the "greatest living Latin American writers" (Newsweek), Heading South, Looking North is at once a vivid account of a life as complex and mysterious as the fictional characters Dorfman has created, and an enthralling search for a permanent home, a political cause, and a cultural identity.
- Sales Rank: #959674 in Books
- Published on: 1999-05-01
- Released on: 1999-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.70" h x .60" w x 5.05" l, .52 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
Amazon.com Review
Ariel Dorfman is no stranger to exile. Before his 30th birthday, he had fled with his parents (Jews who had escaped from Eastern Europe) from Argentina to the U.S. and then later to Chile. Then, following a military coup, he fled Chile for a stint in Europe before returning to the U.S. For Dorfman, this was not traveling but enduring, as his forced movement between nations, cultures, and languages left him without a place to call home or a culture he could completely define as his own. Although heralded as one of Latin America's leading writers, he once renounced the Spanish language and swore to become an American in both speech and culture. Later, while a student at Berkeley, he abandoned English with the same vengeance and returned to his native Spanish. Such vacillation caused him to ponder the role of language in forming identity, and this theme runs throughout Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey. His desire to embrace his Latin roots went beyond language, however, for it was politics that ultimately thrust him into the role of a writer, thus changing his life. He had wanted to be a part of the American protest movement, but he feared the official wrath that could befall him due to his immigrant status: "This seemed to be my fate. In Chile, I had been Argentinean; here, I was Chilean; always the danger of deportation, my foreign passport weighing down on me. So I looked on while heads were broken, sit-ins were disrupted, and damsels in distress were dragged off by the 'pigs.' ... My participation was always surreptitious and oblique...." But in Chile his involvement took a more active stance. His status as official citizen emboldened him and he enthusiastically embraced Salvador Allende's socialist movement, serving for a time as the administration's communications and media advisor; a choice that eventually earned him yet another round of exile back in the U.S. (where he continues to reside) after the death of Allende and the rise of General Augusto Pinochet. A remarkable story of perseverance and the inherent power of language, Heading South, Looking North is ultimately a quest for self-identity. The fact that he wrote this book in English may answer the question of where he stands--for now. --Shawn Carkonen
From Publishers Weekly
The details of this artfully constructed memoir by a Chilean novelist probably best known in this country for his play Death and the Maiden are dramatic, but what makes the book remarkable is its continuing meditation on language and its role in forging identity. When Dorfman was born in Argentina in 1942, his Jewish parents, who had fled Russia, named him Vladimiro in honor of Lenin. In 1945, they moved to New York City, where their son (who adopted the name Edward) refused to speak Spanish and became a believer in popular American culture, even rooting for his father's enemy, Peron, because as long as Juan and Evita remained in power, the Dorfmans would never return to Buenos Aires. In 1955, under pressure from Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Dorfman's father left his job at the U.N. and took his family to Chile, where "Edward" attended an English school. After college, he went north again in 1968 to study at Berkeley and returned to Chile in 1970 to be part of Salvador Allende's socialist government. Three years later, Allende was dead, the country was in the midst of a military putsch and Dorfman was fleeing for his life, back to North America. In alternating chapters, the author relates what happened when Allende was overthrown and the story of his own life and how it was shaped by the language he was speaking. Dorfman at times seems more concerned with writing a "literary" work than with telling a story, but as the book goes on, the self-conscious flourishes diminish and the result is an astonishing portrait of the shaping of a life.
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From Library Journal
Chilean expatriate Dorfman, who now teaches at Duke University, is perhaps best known in this country as the author of the play Death and the Maiden. He is a prolific writer of international stature who moves freely among forms producing novels, plays, essays, poems, and, now, an extraordinary memoir of his extraordinary life. His work is structured in chapters that alternate between "the discovery of death" and "the discovery of life and language." The first thread takes place in Chile in the fall of 1973 with the coup against Salvador Allende, when Dorfman says he himself should have died but did not. The second thread follows Dorfman's life chronologically up until that point. Though jolting at first, the effect of this dual structure is to create in the reader the jarring sense of the discontinuities in Dorfman's tale of multiple exiles, switches in languages and cultures, and the relentless forces of history on the life of one individual. Recommended for academic and large public libraries.?Mary Paumier Jones, Westminster P.L., CO
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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11 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Mixed feelings
By ZZR-RR
This is the kind of book I thought I'd enjoy. A memoir by Ariel Dorfman, the novelist, the exile, living now with his family in Durham, North Carolina, where he holds the Walter Hines Page chair at Duke University. To a certain extent I did like it, but the author comes over as a smarmy busy-bee who pokes his nose into everything and inevitably gets himself into trouble. He sounds like a na�ve adolescent, full of himself, pathetic despite his experiences and accomplishments. He is an idealist, a quirky character, a good writer, no doubt an eccentric.
What is most incredible is that the man now lives in the USA despite all his criticism of the country's influence on the Third World in such books as How to Read Donald Duck. A bonus point for the USA for letting him stay, I'd say. This is not to say that Dorfman is incorrect in his assumptions though, rather it begs the question of why did he choose to live in the US? No doubt, it is where he is most likely to draw attention to himself, have his books published, and hold a secure position! In that he's not much different to the rest of us at heart, only differing insofar as his writing and exile is concerned.
Heading South, Looking North is an account of Dorfman's early years in the US, his life in Chile, his involvement during the Allende years, his struggle with language, namely American English and Latin American Spanish, and finally his exile from Chile where this book ends.
The chapters alternate between his early years and the Allende years, before he brings it all together in the closing chapter. The writing is often in the present tense and meanders and grinds on and on, thereby it is easy to lose a grasp of what's being said. Nonetheless, I quite liked the style, though much of the time I couldn't see what the fuss of whether to use Spanish or English was about. Well, so it's difficult to be fluent and think and write in both languages. This is a writer's dilemma, his agony so to speak, but it's no big deal. That is unless you want to make it one, and Dorfman does. Whatever, he seems to succeed in his efforts to write in both languages.
I feel he uses that theme here as an overburdened vehicle to the Allende years and his involvement in the revolution. A guy like this is bound to be involved in some sort of revolution or other. And in this book his supposed squeaky clean honesty reminds me of modern day politicians, who I do not trust. I'd be watching my back if Dorfman was around for sure, he protests too much and I feel there is definitely something he is not saying although he is supposed to be saying it all.
I look forward to reading a novel by him though.
4 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
One of greatest literary and political disappointments
By An Mhuruch
Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden helped me learn some new Spanish words, soak in Chile, Chilito, pisco sour... it also helped me imagine with more concreteness the hell that foreign policy and the Pinochet dictatorship unleashed upon Chilean men and women. I learned pieces of the dialogues by heart and wondered about the implications of human frailty and resistance in general. Alas, I took the work to be an expression of criticism toward the weak-willed husband who was content with a foul compromise, with the so-called "dialogue". This memoir as well as Dorfman's pieces in Counterpunch opened my eyes, however. Dorfman has never advanced past the boy who forsook Spanish for English, the boy so awed by glories of Holywood that he'd rather be a whimsical, charming Ariel than a weird Vladimiro. It is hilarious that he is being criticized for Communist sympathies here, when he is a liberal in the nineteenth c. sense of the term who would fight and die for nothing but his piece of the northamerican pie. I wish I had never read any of his work, and I cannot forgive him his cowardice, his duplicity, his heading AND looking north. I'll stick to Galeano instead.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Pivotal moments
By Amazon Customer
This book is the internal memoirs of a man whose defining moments were exile from his homelands and his languages. Exile was a longstanding way of life in Dorfman's family, from his grandparents who had to leave Eastern Europe, to his parents who had to flee both Argentina and the US, and now Dorfman himself, who was forced into asylum after the fall of Allende in Chile. But exile is more of a secondary or co-theme of this book. The other major theme is Dorfman's search for identity through his languages. Throughout the book, Dorfman describes how he came to know language, and the identity traits that go along with a language. He also describes how he came to choose which of his two languages, English and Spanish, to use in different contexts and to consciously construct different identities.
Rather than tell his story chronologically, Dorfman works from a repertoire of pivotal moments. He has asked himself, when and why did I first start using English? When did I begin to write? When did I embrace the philosophy of non-violence? He then describes these episodes in detail, and speculates and philosophizes on them. The story of Dorfman's political activities in Chile and what happened to him during the coup constitute about half of the book, with these political chapters alternating with chapters about the other significant events in his life. The bouncing back-and-forth between time periods moves almost smoothly, like the thought patterns of an insomniac reflecting back at the end of a busy day.
I found many aspects of this book quite interesting. The first-person account of bilingualism, and its ties to a conflicted identity were described very clearly. The inside perspective on the Allende regime and its fall was also informative. What was particularly telling was the speculation on why the regime lost popularity amongst the Chilean people- -how Dorfman himself shamed people who were celebrating the Allende victory with a right-wing singer who was trying to mend fences, and told them the singer was not welcome in the revolution, or how he didn't reach out to a neighbor whose job was jeopardized and then lost because he wasn't an Allendista. Another aspect of this story that I found intriguing was Dorfman's identity as a gringo English speaker brought to Chile against his will as a young teenager, who came to adopt the country and become active in its politics. I couldn't help but think of another young man, Michael Townley, who was also brought by his American family to Santiago in his teenage years, and also learned the language, married a local girl, and wanted to call Chile his permanent home. But Townley was on the other side of the revolution, and became a right-wing terrorist working for the Chilean intelligence forces. Did Dorfman ever encounter Townley? Of course, Dorfman wasn't actually American- -he was an Argentinean who spent a significant portion of his childhood in the US, but he looked and spoke the part. How many other young Americans adopted Chile during this period? What was their combined influence on Chilean politics?
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