THE SUICIDE MUSEUM, by Ariel DorfmanOn Sept. 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile died inside the national palace in Santiago during a U.S.-backed military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
Afterward, the Chilean army announced that suicide was the official cause of death, which many Chileans distrusted, if not flatly rejected.
This is the mystery that powers “The Suicide Museum,” a new novel by the Chilean American author, playwright and activist Ariel Dorfman.
Whether his life was tragic or epic.”For Ariel, even considering the possibility that Allende died by suicide isn’t easy.
He is attached to an epic narrative in which Allende died fighting; any alternative theory “desecrated a sanctuary that was out-of-bounds.”
Persons:
Ariel Dorfman, Salvador Allende, General Augusto Pinochet, Pinochet, It’s, ”, he’s, Ariel, Joseph Hortha, Dorfman, Allende
Organizations:
Chilean
Locations:
Chile, Santiago, U.S, Chilean American, United States