TY - GEN T1 - La vida doble : a novel T2 - Margellos world republic of letters book. A1 - Fontaine Talavera, Arturo A2 - McDowell, Megan LA - English LA - Spanish PP - New Haven PB - Yale University Press YR - 2013 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn842386301 AB - Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point when every choice she confronts is impossible. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, withstanding brutal torture to save her comrades, she must now either forsake the allegiances of motherhood or betray the political ideals to which she is deeply committed. Arturo Fontaine's Lorena is a study in contradictions--mother and combatant, intellectual and lover, idealist and traitor--and he places her within a historical context that confounds her dilemmas. Though she has few viable options, she is no mere victim, and Fontaine disallows any comfortable high moral ground. His novel is among the most subtle explorations of human violence ever written. Ranking with Roberto Bolaño and Mario Vargas Llosa on Latin America's roster of most accomplished authors, Fontaine is a fearless explorer of the most sordid and controversial aspects of Chile's history and culture. He addresses a set of moral questions specific to Pinochet's murderous reign but invites us, four decades later, to consider global conflicts today and question how far we've come. OP - 302 CN - PQ8098.16.O5 V5313 2013eb SN - 9780300195149 SN - 0300195141 SN - 9780300176698 SN - 0300176694 KW - Women revolutionaries : Chile : Fiction. KW - Mothers : Fiction. KW - Chile : History : 1973-1988 : Fiction. KW - Chilean fiction : Translations into English. KW - Femmes révolutionnaires : Chili : Romans, nouvelles, etc. KW - Mères : Romans, nouvelles, etc. KW - Chili : Histoire : 1973-1988 : Romans, nouvelles, etc. KW - FICTION : General. KW - Chilean fiction KW - Mothers KW - Women revolutionaries KW - Chile KW - 1973-1988 KW - Fiction KW - History KW - Translations ER -