Dorfman In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land

New and Collected Poems from Two Languages
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8395-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 172 Seiten

A collection of poetry bearing witness to atrocities committed by the Chilean dictatorship, describing the realities and aftermath of terror.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dorfman, Ariel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Grossman, Edith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS Like So Many Prefaces, This One Is Also Probably Superfluous By Way of Dedication: Community dot Com PART ONE To Miss, Be Missed, Missing / Desaparecer PART TWO Poems I Wasn’t Going to Show Anybody / Poemas que no iba a mostrar a nadie PART THREE Undertow / Resaca FOUR EPILOGUES Anything Else Would Have Tasted Like Ashes / Cuatro Epílogos: Para Que La Vida No Tuviese Sabor a Cenizas Acknowledgments

Über Autor(innen)

Ariel Dorfman is a world-renowned author of fiction, poems, essays, and films in both Spanish and English. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and his plays staged in more than one hundred countries. His work has received many prizes, among them the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play. He holds the Walter Hines Page Chair at Duke University and contributes regularly to many newspapers worldwide. Among Dorfman‘s publications are the reissue of his novel Widows (2002), Blake’s Therapy (2001), the memoir Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey (1998), and the play Death and the Maiden (1992). The poems in In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land have been read publicly by Bono, Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Ben Kingsley, Harold Pinter, John Malkovich, and many others, and have been transformed into films, art exhibits, and cantatas.Edith Grossman has translated the novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.