Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin PDF
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fj flARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY '< 31111010245759 L Garcia MliRQiiEZ Clandestine t>e in chile Adventures OF MieuEL LiniN 11 ISBN 0-flDSD-033E-3 FPT >%l r CLANDESTINE IN After twelve years in exile. Chiles leading — film director, Miguel Littin, returned in — disguise to shoot a clandestinefilm about Pinochets Chile. His voice and experience are recorded here by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez. Miguel Littin, permanently exiled by Chilesdictator, illegallyenteredhisnativecoun- try in the fall of 1985, disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. Formerly dark, bearded, and — portly, his new persona reflected in this — revealing first-person account finds him slimmed down, beardless, and light-haired. Littins laugh, his walk, and each ofhis gesturas were newly learned. While simultaneously directingfive film crews on several locations, he becameanactorplayingarolethatrequiredper- fection: anything less would spell exposure. His purpose: to film his beloved, despoiled country asitistoday, torecordthe"abominablesilences" of a country under siege. So successful was his disguise that the filmmakers own mother failed torecognizehimonasurprisevisittohervillage. The experience and sentiments of a man who traded hisown identity for an invented one turn out to be another form of disguise in the hands of the Nobel Prize winner for literature, Gabriel GarciaMarquez. Beyondrecountingthe dailylivingofaclandestinelifein dangerouscir- cumstances, this remarkable story contains lay- ers of experience and meaning to reveal what happenstoanindividualwhenhetakesonanew identity. Intelligence, wisdom, humor, and sub- tlety inform Garcia Marquezs writing ^i give this important contemporary ad- the unmistakable mark ofliterature. (Continuedonbackflap) CENTER ClVl. ^fe^ lllllllll'l'l"'!'" 3 111 01024 5759 DATE DUE Uf^^—Ml ^AIM-W989 Far-ranging bird, aloft you seemed suspended between continents over lost seas; aflick of a wing, a bell clap offeathers: majestically, you changed your course afraction and, triumphant and true, continued on your implacable, lonely route. THEADVENTURES OF MIGUEL LITTIN Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translated by Asa Zatz Henry Holt and Company New York Copyright s 1986 by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translation copyright © 1987 by Asa Zatz All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereofin any form. First published in the United States in 1987 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10175. Published simultaneously in Canada. Originally published in Colombia under the title La aventura deMiguelLittin, clandestino en Chile. Library-ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, 1928- Clandestine in Chile. Translation of: La aventura de Miguel Littin, clandestino en Chile. — — 1. Chile Politics and government 1970- 2. Chile—Description and travel—1981- 3. Littin, Miguel. 4. Moving-pictureproducers and directors-Chile-Biography. I. Littin, Miguel. II. Title. F3100.G37513 1987 983'.064 87-39 ISBN: 0-8050-0322-3 FirstAmerican Edition Designed by Susan Hood Printed in the United States ofAmerica 987654321 10 Excerpt from "Ode to the Voyager Albatross" copyright © 1973 by the Estate ofPablo Neruda; translationcopyright ® 1987 by Margaret Peden. Photographscourtesy of Miguel Littin. ISBN D-flOSD-03EE-3 Hero, I said; no one will erect on the soil ofsome public plaza your inspiring statue, no one. Instead, amid somber official laurels will be installed a mustached man infrock coat or with sword, a man who killed a peasant woman in the war, a man who with a single bloody shell demolished a schoolfor little girls, a man who usurped the Indians' lands, a hunter of doves, exterminator of black swans. . . . don*t expect them to erect a monument to yourfeats; and while melancholy spectators gathered around your remains, plucking afeather, a petal, a message from a hurricane, I walked away, so that at least your memory, without a stone, without a statue, might on these linesfly for the last time into space, and yourflight stay close to the sea.
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