Exorcising Terror: the Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet.

AuthorMenick, John
PositionBook Review - Brief Article

By Ariel Dorfman Seven Stories. 244 pages. $11.05.

Pinochet the traitor, Pinochet the murderer, Pinochet the prisoner, Pinochet the word of "dreaded syllables." These are among some of the dishonorable names that move through Ariel Dorfman's book Exorcising Terror. In more than 200 pages, Dorfman adeptly chronicles Pinochet's trial in England while contemplating the precedents it sets and the troubled memories it unearths. It is a firsthand account, interweaving the stories of those who had the misfortune to cross the general's path with those who wish...

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