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Title: Death and the Maiden (Penguin Plays) by Ariel Dorfman ISBN: 0-14-024684-3 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Empowerment in different forms
Comment: although i have only read this novel once so far,i found it to be extremely compelling. questions of: deceit,betrayal,revenge,desire and power tirade throughout the play. for who is really honest?- certainly not gerardo(a recarnation of robespierre); nor paulina (your frustated, dillusional, prototypical housewife);nor ricardo (the sly,oil slicked stranger accused). these characters undeniable flaws (it could be argued that dorfman has potrayed every piitful and pathetic trait ever known to man)seem to cause their downfalls,but also growth within themselves and their relations with others. surely the final setting will influence the reader to think so.
Rating: 5
Summary: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN finds excitement in ideals.
Comment: Thousands of Chilean citizens are said to have "disappeared" during the regime of General Augusto Pinochet, who reigned from 1973-1990. Though not specifically set in Chile, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN is about learning to live again in the aftermath of such an era.
Gerardo Escobar has just been named to a commission that will investigate human rights cases against the old government that ended in death (or the presumption of death). His wife, Paulina, was victimized herself fifteen years earlier, and still has not recovered from the trauma. Now she believes Roberto Miranda, the good Samaritan who came to Gerardo's aid on the road when he had a flat tire, is the same doctor who oversaw her torture years ago, and since there is no hope of gaining justice from the courts, she decides to put Dr. Miranda "on trial" herself.
Playwright Ariel Dorfman pits his characters' heads against their hearts, and the result is a play that is as exciting intellectually as it is emotionally. They are forced to try to answer the kinds of questions with which human beings prefer never to be faced.
How can we be sure of our own ideals? How can we escape our demons when they surround us every day? How can there be justice if the criminal is never punished?
How can we ever learn to forgive, and NEVER learn to forget?
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Title: The Rainbow People of God by Desmond Tutu ISBN: 0385483740 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb by Ronald Takaki ISBN: 0316831247 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel ISBN: 1565843436 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Regeneration by Pat Barker ISBN: 0452270073 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: July, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Human Rights Reader by Walter Laqueur, Barry Rubin ISBN: 0452010268 Publisher: Meridian Books Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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