- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books USA (Jan 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679767169
- ISBN-13: 978-0679767169
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,440,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Dorfman pushes the outer limit of the fictional envelope as daringly and imaginatively as Julio Cortazar and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
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Told almost exclusively through dialogue, Konfidenz opens with a woman entering a hotel room and receiving a call from a mysterious stranger who seems to know everything about her and the reasons why she has fled her homeland. Over the next nine hours he tells her many disturbing things about her lover (who may be in great danger), the political situation in which they are enmeshed, and his fantasies of her. A terse political allegory that challenges our assumptions about character, the foundations of our knowledge, and the making of history, Konfidenz draws the reader into a postmodern mystery where nothing--including the text itself--is what it seems. First published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1995), most recent paperback Vintage (1998).
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The Many Voices of Konfidenz
20 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
Not only is this book intriguing in its storyline, but it is also intriguing in its composition: Dorfman uses several different narrative voices with great success. He puts the reader in the position of being the voyeur--watching the characters, as well as himself, the author. He also turns a voyeuristic eye on the reader, making you wonder if you, like the characters, are being watched. The novel raises issues of trust in a society where basic human rights are consistently compromised. "Private life is an illusion in our world, Barbara. When you can torture one person, private life ends for everybody else."
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A literate, attention engaging, and multifaceted novel
15 Sep 2003
Format:Paperback
A distinguished work of Latin-American literature written by Ariel Dorfman (who was exiled from his native Chile after the 1973 coup), Konfidenz is an absorbing story, told almost entirely through dialogue, of a woman best with telephone calls from a mysterious stranger who appears to know everything about her -- including her reasons for fleeing her homeland and the peril she and those close to her are in. Konfidenz is recommended as a tense, gripping, literate, attention engaging, and multifaceted novel.
A book to be read and reread
26 Aug 2010
Format:Paperback
Konfidenz is a passionate treatise on love, repression, aesthetics.
The central relationships of the text rip apart the sexuality of government; to start this book requires that you read until you finish it, and read it again many times.
It's not a "hard" read at all--Dorfman's style sometimes borders on austerity, and yet emotionally and intellectually, the work is incredibly challenging. A very poetic sort of prose...
The central relationships of the text rip apart the sexuality of government; to start this book requires that you read until you finish it, and read it again many times.
It's not a "hard" read at all--Dorfman's style sometimes borders on austerity, and yet emotionally and intellectually, the work is incredibly challenging. A very poetic sort of prose...
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