Konfidenz
Told almost exclusively through dialogue, Konfidenz opens with a woman entering a hotel room and receiving a call from a mysterious stranger who seems to know everything about her and the reasons why she has fled her homeland. Over the next nine hours he tells her many disturbing things about her lover (who may be in great danger), the political situation in which they are enmeshed, and his fantasies of her. A terse political allegory that challenges our assumptions about character, the foundations of our knowledge, and the making of history, Konfidenz draws the reader into a postmodern mystery where nothing--including the text itself--is wha…
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Weitere Autoren: Codrescu, Andrei (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-56478-293-9
- EAN: 9781564782939
- Produktnummer: 9601582
- Verlag: Dalkey Archive Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 177 S.
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B16.6 cm x D1.4 cm 204 g
- Gewicht: 204
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
Über den Autor
Chilean-American author and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman's many internationally acclaimed works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction include his bestselling memoir, Heading South, Looking North, which was the basis for the documentary film A Promise to the Dead, directed by Peter Raymont and shortlisted for the Oscars in 2008. His play Death and the Maiden, staged in over 100 countries, was made into a feature film by Roman Polanski. Dorfman is afrequent contributor to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times Book Review, and Huffington Post. He is Walter Hines Page professor of literature and Latin American studies at Duke University, and his numerous international honors include his delivery ofthe Mandela Lecture in Johannesburg in 2010.
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