Clandestine in Chile
Adventures of Miguel Littin (Granta Paperbacks)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: | 9780140140156 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books / Granta |
Published: | 15 March, 1990 |
Format: | Paperback |
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Clandestine in Chile
Adventures of Miguel Littin (Granta Paperbacks)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In 1973, the film director Miguel Littin 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 prescriptions of the American economist Milton Friedman. In 1985, Littin 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. Afterwards, the great novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez sat down with Littin to hear the story of his escapade, with all its scary, comic, and not-a-little surreal ups and downs. Then, applying the same unequaled gifts that had already gained him a Nobel Prize, Garcia Marquez wrote it down." Clandestine in Chile" is a true-life adventure story and a classic of modern reportage.
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