Bibliograph

Clandestine in Chile, the adventures of Miguel Littín, Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Asa Zatz ; preface by Francisco Goldman

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Clandestine in Chile, the adventures of Miguel Littín, Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Asa Zatz ; preface by Francisco Goldman

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Clandestine in Chile

Oclc number

426794408

Responsibility statement

Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Asa Zatz ; preface by Francisco Goldman

Series statement

New York Review Books classics

Sub title

the adventures of Miguel Littín

Summary

"In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and turned Chile into a laboratory to test the poisonous presecriptions of the American economist Milton Friedman. In 1985, Littín returned to Chile disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. He was desperate to see the homeland he'd been exiled from for so many years; he also meant to pull off a very tricky stunt: with the help of three film crews from three different countries, each supposedly busy making a movie to promote tourism, he would secretly put together a film that would tell the truth about Pinochet's benighted Chile--a film that would capture the world's attention while landing the general and his secret police with a very visible black eye."--Back cover

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