Konfidenz. [Import] [Paperback]

Ariel Dorfman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1995. (1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340637706
• ISBN-13: 978-0340637708
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Many Voices of Konfidenz, October 20, 2000

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This review is from: Konfidenz: (English language edition) (Paperback)

Not only is this book intriguing in its storyline, but it is also intriguing in its composition: Dorfman uses several different narrative voices with great success. He puts the reader in the position of being the voyeur--watching the characters, as well as himself, the author. He also turns a voyeuristic eye on the reader, making you wonder if you, like the characters, are being watched. The novel raises issues of trust in a society where basic human rights are consistently compromised. "Private life is an illusion in our world, Barbara. When you can torture one person, private life ends for everybody else."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A literate, attention engaging, and multifaceted novel, September 15, 2003

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Konfidenz (Latin American Literature Series) (Paperback)

A distinguished work of Latin-American literature written by Ariel Dorfman (who was exiled from his native Chile after the 1973 coup), Konfidenz is an absorbing story, told almost entirely through dialogue, of a woman best with telephone calls from a mysterious stranger who appears to know everything about her -- including her reasons for fleeing her homeland and the peril she and those close to her are in. Konfidenz is recommended as a tense, gripping, literate, attention engaging, and multifaceted novel.

5.0 out of 5 stars A book to be read and reread, August 26, 2010

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This review is from: Konfidenz (Latin American Literature Series) (Paperback)

Konfidenz is a passionate treatise on love, repression, aesthetics.

The central relationships of the text rip apart the sexuality of government; to start this book requires that you read until you finish it, and read it again many times.

It's not a "hard" read at all--Dorfman's style sometimes borders on austerity, and yet emotionally and intellectually, the work is incredibly challenging. A very poetic sort of prose...