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Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile | Ariel Dorfman

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Dorfman portrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, the personal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations from Buenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet's death squads, to safe houses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, his childhood home. The toll on Dorfman's wife and two sons, the 'earthquake of language' that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning of his allegiance to past and party - all these crucibles of a life in exile are revealed with wry and startling honesty. Feeding on Dreams is a passionate reminder that 'we are all exiles', that we are all 'threatened with annihilation if we do not find and celebrate the refuge of common humanity', as Dorfman did during his 'decades of loss and resurrection'.

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Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile | Ariel Dorfman

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Why did Dorfman write his memoir?To “teach” this “incredibly simple conclusion:we must trust one another,despite losses,despite betrayals or we shall all surely die”.The author writes with sincerity about his years in exile in France,Holland,the US,his country&opposition during the dictatorship,the difficulties of transitioning into a democracy with tormentors walking the streets unscathed,his writing,authors he met such as Böll or Kundera.

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