Clandestine in Chile is a compelling and compact non-fiction book by the magnificent writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Throughout Clandestine in Chile, the reader sits inside the head of disguised Chilean director Miguel Lutin. A popular and respected film director, Lutin was appointed by President Salvador Allende to be head of Chile Films. He fled the country after the coup d’etat.
Twelve years after the September 11, 1973 coup led by General Augusto Pinochet with orchestration and assistance by the U.S. government of Nixon-Kissinger , a disguised Miguel Lutin secretly returned to Chile to direct clandestine film crews. Marquez wrote this book based on 18 hours of recorded interviews and narrative by Miguel Lutin, the film’s director. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a friend of Salvador Allende the murdered President of Chile.
Clandestine in Chile, The Adventures of Miguel Lutin
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated from the Spanish by Asa Zatz
Preface by Francisco Goldman
New York Review Books, 1986.
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