WRITER

Ariel Dorfman

1942 - Today

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Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic and human rights activist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ariel Dorfman has received more than 307,989 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ariel Dorfman is the 4,450th most popular writer (down from 4,355th in 2019), the 375th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 347th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Argentinean Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Para leer al Pato Donald
Comic books, strips, Propaganda, Capitalist, Propaganda, American
First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney—curiously parentless, marginalized, always short of cash—Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart dissect the narratives of dependency and social aspiration that define the Disney corpus. Disney recognized the challenge, and when the book was translated and imported into the U.S. in 1975, managed to have all 4,000 copies impounded. Ultimately, 1,500 copies of the book were allowed into the country, the rest of the shipment was blocked, and until now no American publisher has dared re-release the book, which sold over a million copies worldwide and has been translated into seventeen languages.
1971
Blake's therapy
Fiction, Chief executive officers, Downsizing of organizations
"When Graham Blake - model parent, marketing guru of the hugely successful Clean Earth, Inc. - suffers a mental breakdown, he checks into the Corporate Life Therapy Institute, where the self-assured, silver-tongued Dr. Carl Tolgate has prepared a strange, shocking, and erotic treatment. Caught in a voyeuristic spiral involving a mysterious Latina, Blake tries desperately to find out, before it is too late, who is controlling his life, his company's future, and his own heart.". "A work of intense psychological intrigue, Blake's Therapy holds a magnifying glass to one man's life as it unravels in a world of economic turmoil and spiritual crisis, reality-TV, and genetic engineering, finally questioning the very nature of storytelling in our time."--BOOK JACKET.
1999
Muerte y la doncella
Physicians, Torture victims, Political persecution
1991
Rumbo al Sur, deseando el Norte
Autores chilenos, Chilean Authors, Autores exiliados
1998
Viudas
Literary, Fiction - Historical, Fiction
1981
Konfidenz
Fiction, Political refugees, Political fiction
1994

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ariel Dorfman ranks 4,450 out of 7,302. Before him are Alain de Botton, Rosemary Sutcliff, Quentin Crisp, Arthur Ransome, Olaf Bull, and Sāyaṇa. After him are Gudrun Pausewang, Severus Sanctus Endelechius, Jan Myrdal, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Einar Benediktsson, and Helen Thomas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Ariel Dorfman ranks 405. Before him are Dobromir Zhechev, Joe Lieberman, Gualtiero Bassetti, Claudine Longet, Ned Block, and Jerry Sloan. After him are Ramiro de León Carpio, Valentin Lebedev, Eduard Malofeyev, Boubacar Traoré, Rita Tushingham, and Beverly Aadland.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Ariel Dorfman ranks 375 out of 1,154. Before him are Roberto Abbondanzieri (1972), José Ramos Delgado (1935), Enrique Santos Discépolo (1901), Emiliano Martínez (1992), Rubén Ayala (1950), and Miguel Ángel Brindisi (1950). After him are Julio Ricardo Cruz (1974), Olga Orozco (1920), Clemar Bucci (1920), Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934), Delfo Cabrera (1919), and Julián Álvarez (2000).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Ariel Dorfman ranks 22. Before him are Roberto Arlt (1900), Leopoldo Lugones (1874), Juan José Saer (1937), César Aira (1949), Hector Bianciotti (1930), and Esteban Echeverría (1805). After him are Olga Orozco (1920), Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934), Rodolfo Walsh (1927), Ricardo Güiraldes (1886), Angélica Gorodischer (1928), and Oliverio Girondo (1891).

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