Ariel Dorfman was born on 6 May 1942 in Argentina. His parents gave him the name Vladimiro, after Vladimir Lenin, but Dorfman tells readers of his memoir, Heading South, Looking North, that when he was a nine-year-old boy in the United States, he...

(7) The fact that Gerardo is speaking of another woman also underscores the problem of loyalty and betrayal. Upon release from prison, Paulina returns to their apartment to find Gerardo in bed with another woman. His betrayal stands in stark contrast to her...

Cuba's late Marxist revolutionary, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, is experiencing something of a revival these days. His fiery-eyed visage and rock-star good looks, immortalized in an iconic snapshot by photographer Alfredo Korda in 1961, seem to epitomize the youthful idealism of revolution, rebellion and free-spiritedness.Since then,...

In the following essay, Gregory investigates the influence of Harold Pinter on Dorfman's work, concluding that the two writers both focus heavily on “issues of the interaction of politics and language and of the mental and physical abuse of the rebellious and the powerless.”

In the following essay, Morace traces the initial success and eventual decline in popularity of Death and the Maiden, arguing that the several celebrity-driven adaptations of the play have ultimately lessened the work's dramatic and emotional impact.

In the following essay, Crnkovic presents a critical analysis of director Roman Polanski's film adaptation of Death and the Maiden, discussing how the director interpreted both the original play and Dorfman's screenplay.