Patricia Politzer,Diane Wachtell
â€œLike a GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez novel that has suddenly, horrifyingly, come to real lifeâ€ (,New York Newsday,), ,Fear in Chile, is an extraordinary collection of firstperson accounts of life under dictatorship. In the 1980s, shortly after Chile emerged from one of the centuryâ€™s most notorious reigns of terror, Chilean journalist Patricia Politzer interviewed figures including a revolutionary activist, a military leader loyal to General Augusto Pinochet, a bank clerk concerned with the status quo, the mother of one of the â€œdisappeared,â€ as well as a dozen other men and women from every political position and social stratum of Chilean life. The result is a broad, vivid, yet nonideological view of modern life under military rule, about which Ariel Dorfman writes, â€œI can think of no better introduction to my country.â€,With the October 1998 arrest of General Pinochet in Great Britain and renewed world awareness of the horrendous crimes committed during his regime, ,Fear in Chile,, updated with a new afterword by the author that considers the recent attempts to prosecute Pinochet for human-rights violations, offers a vivid portrait of Chileâ€™s Pinochet era.
History,Nonfiction
Fear in Chile: Lives Under Pinochet