Carolina QuotesAriel Dorfman
North Carolina · connectedBorn 1942
Chilean writer
- Worked at Duke University
writer, playwright, journalist, novelist, essayist, literary critic
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I think the genre decides for me—which sounds like a way of avoiding the question unless I explain first that this chameleon-like border crossing, this shifting of genre identities is, I realize, parallel to, or anticipates, or recollects my own life. I’m probably fluctuating across genres perhaps because my identity itself is always in flux…
Not to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing for a writer…If you can deal with it. If it doesn’t destroy you.
More than a traveler, I’m a displacer. In other words, I’m a person who is constantly meditating on what it means not to arrive at a place, but to be on my way somewhere else.
The past is really unknowable, but it’s got to be knowable enough so that we can seek forgiveness for our crimes…
In the libraries
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Blake's therapy
· 1999
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Konfidenz
· 1994
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La última canción de Manuel Sendero
· 1982
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Para leer al Pato Donald
· 1971
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Rumbo al Sur, deseando el Norte
· 1998
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Viudas
· 1981
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