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Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin (New York Review Books Classics) Paperback – July 6, 2010

by Gabriel García Márquez (Author), Asa Zatz (Translator), Francisco Goldman (Preface)

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In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and turned Chile into a laboratory to test the poisonous prescriptions of the American economist Milton Friedman. In 1985, Littín returned to Chile disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. He was desperate to see the homeland he’d been exiled from for so many years; he also meant to pull off a very tricky stunt: with the help of three film crews from three different countries, each supposedly busy making a movie to promote tourism, he would secretly put together a film that would tell the truth about Pinochet’s benighted Chile—a film that would capture the world’s attention while landing the general and his secret police with a very visible black eye.

Afterwards, the great novelist Gabriel García Márquez sat down with Littín to hear the story of his escapade, with all its scary, comic, and not-a-little surreal ups and downs. Then, applying the same unequaled gifts that had already gained him a Nobel Prize, García Márquez wrote it down. Clandestine in Chile is a true-life adventure story and a classic of modern reportage.

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"The journalism which began Márquez's Nobel Prize-winning career is employed here not only to tell Littín's remarkable story, but offer a tragic summary of Chilean politics." —The Independent (London)

"Reissued nearly 25 years after its initial appearance, the book recounts a middle-aged caper, vainglorious yet genuinely gripping. Time has drained the adventure of its urgency, and our geographical and cultural distance blunts its force. Still, this remains a significant document. An invaluable preface by Francisco Goldman explains why." —The Boston Globe
“Clandestine in Chile is a memoir of Mr. Littin’s six-week adventure, as told to and recast by Mr. Garcia Marquez, and a sketch for what the latter calls the film behind the film, the personal story he finds more moving than the original film project. The idea is moving, indeed dazzling...[Gabriel Garcia Márquez] seems chiefly to have lent some of his own quietly lyrical cadences to certain images and chapter endings…he evokes well the haunting cold of autumn in Chile, and gently registers the exile’s nostalgias and surprises.” –Michael Wood, The New York Times

“Garcia Marquez has written a terse political thriller with shafts of insight into conflicts of identity.” –Newsweek

“In Garcia Marquez’s prose, Littin’s actions become truly heroic and the clandestine hero achieves the grandeur of all popular heroes…readers now have the story of a magnificent civil disobedience.” –The Globe and Mail (Canada)

“Garcia Marquez’s book is based on hours of taped interviews with Littin, and is retold in the first person, which gives it suspense and immediacy and brings embattled Chile vividly to life…it portrays a government without legitimacy, a people living in fear and a resistance movement determined to fight for change.” –The Sunday Times (London)

“A rousing adventure story, this is also the best reportage available about conditions in Chile today.”

“It is excellent journalism...this book remains an interesting historical document—smuggled across the Chilean border like contraband—of what life was like under the old dictator…I have never read a book that pokes quite such irreverent fun at the dangers of military power.” –The Independent (London)

“Fluid and full of surprises.” –The Washington Post

“Two foremost artists of Latin America meet in this breathtaking story…Clandestine is a fascinating literary journey…the book alone is celebration enough of human ingenuity and determination. I recommend it wholeheartedly.” –Marjorie Agosin, The Christian Science Monitor

“Marquez re-creates the story brilliantly from taped interviews with Littin and writes it in first person.” –Claire Scobie, The Sun Hearld (Sydney)

“An extraordinary if Chaplinesque adventure which would make good comedy if it did not take place against the background of one of the most repressive regimes in modern times…[it succeeds] as a reporting style swinging freely between effervescence and emotionalism.” –Courrier Mail

About the Author

Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. He began working as a reporter while studying law at the University of Cartagena and published his first book, the novella The Leaf Storm, in Bogota in 1955. Among his best-known subsequent works are the novels One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera, and The General in His Labyrinth. In 1986 he wrote Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín, about an exile’s return to the repressive Chile of General Augusto Pinochet. The political revelations of the book led to the burning of almost 15,000 copies by the Chilean government. García Márquez has lived primarily in Mexico since the 1960s, and in 1982 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Asa Zatz was born in Mexico and has translated nearly one hundred books. He lives in New York.

Francisco Goldman is the author of four novels, The Long Night of White Chickens, The Ordinary Seaman, The Divine Husband, the forthcoming Say Her Name, and one work of nonfiction, The Art of Political Murder.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ NYRB Classics; Reprint edition (July 6, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590173406
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590173404
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.46 x 8 inches

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Gabriel García Márquez (1927 – 2014) was born in Colombia and was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. His many works include The Autumn of the Patriarch; No One Writes to the Colonel; Love in the Time of Cholera and Memories of My Melancholy Whores; and a memoir, Living to Tell the Tale. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

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Caroline Lim

Fascinating

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2011

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, famous for his books, 'A Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'Love in the time of Cholera' puts on his journalistic hat again, and produced this summary of 18 hours of interview with Miguel Littín, a famous Chilean film director who had returned to Chile during Pinochet's regime of terror to film the condition of the country and the effects on the people. Miguel Littín had fled Chile after Pinochet toppled Allende in the coup and remained in exile, being on Pinochet's list of 5000 people forbidden to enter the country.

Littín spent 6 weeks in Chile disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. Precise and detailed planning with 3 European film crews who were unaware of each other for security, filming different sections of Chile, was necessary and made possible only with the assistance of the underground resistance. In order to escape detection, Littín had to stay in character the entire time he was in Chile, keep an eye out for the carabineros paying attention to him, avoid calling on friends and family, make sure his teams were kept safe, the film footage smuggled out of Chile into Italy, and that they all get out before the game was up.

His adventures were very cloak and dagger, meetings were a series of complicated passwords and his guardian angel was clearly working overtime because he had some incredible luck in getting out of more than a few potential dangerous situations where his disguise could have been uncovered.

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Great read

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2013

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This was a real surprise for me. It's very fast paced and gives a feel for the claustrophobic environment of Chile during the time. I have no idea how much this matched Littin's real experiences, but it's a fascinating story and I think it does give a glimpse of Chile during those times.

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Clandestine in Chile tells the story of Miguel Littin, a filmmaker who travels to Chile in disguise after being exiled. Miguel and his film crews document the human rights abuses in Chile under Pinochet and interview the victims of the regime's violence. The story is fast paced and provides a look at how much the Chilean people suffered under Pinochet (which I knew little about before reading this work). I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Latin American history or anyone who just wants a fast paced, interesting read.

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True life spy novel!

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2018

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Reads like a spy novel, but true story. Read in three sittings. Rare for me. On time delivery, great condition.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2015

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Excellent book for anyone interested in the other 9/11 in Chile. The Allende/Pinochet era

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Robert Blake

An Exciting, Tense And Haunting Work Of Journalism.

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2010

It is great to see back in print in the US Gabriel Garcia Marquez's epic "Clandestine In Chile." Marquez is known to most US readers for his legendary works of fiction such as "One Hundred Years Of Solitude" and "Love In The Time Of Cholera," but his works of journalism are equally powerful and unforgettable. While his classic work on the Colombian era of narco terror, "News Of A Kidnapping," has always been widely available, this book has been out of print in English for years and now readers can rediscover not only a great book, but a filmmaker's dangerous journey back to a country ruled by a fascist dictator.

"Clandestine In Chile" follows filmmaker Miguel Littin as he enters the Chile of Augusto Pinchet in disguise, determined to make a documentary capturing life under the fascist regime's iron fist. As Littin recounts his journey he also remembers his time as a film director during the hopeful years of Salvador Allende, the world's first elected Marxist president, and how on September 11, 1973, his world and that of all Chile was shattered by a violent military coup backed by the United States. The book mixes anger with elegance as Littin remembers the past and discovers the present Chile, revisiting familiar spots, seeing familiar faces, all different, all changed by history. With beautiful prose Marquez describes the vast landscapes of Chile, its islands, the epic grandeur of the sea and the Andes. We also get insights into Chilean culture and the various, diverse sectors of society. We meet the upper classes in their fashionable clothing and also the poor, the coal miners who secretly remain loyal to the memory of Allende.

There are light-hearted moments when Littin discovers how modern trends in all aspects, even sexual, are embraced by Chile's young. And while there are moments of comedy, the book also manages to capture the eerie, creepy atmosphere of a pacified country where a dictatorship rules and yet everything seems insanely calm due to the treats and luxuries of free market reforms which create great inequality in the country, but provide enough goodies for much of the population to ignore political reality. This is relevant when we live yet again in an era where the illusion of bountiful economics is once again being shaken.

"Clandestine In Chile" is the best kind of journalism. Like the works of Robert Fisk or Kapuscinski, it brings history to life by capturing the human drama of real events. Marquez is not just documenting Littin's experiences, he is telling a thrilling, haunting story that provides a bigger punch than his novels because this actually happened. We learn about Chile's history as we follow Littin trying to get his shots, trying to avoid informants or the police, even coming close to seeing Pinochet himself face to face while filming in the presidential palace. The book is also a great mix of politics and film, cinema is discussed just as much as politics and with much gusto.

This new edition's only weakness is the preface by Francisco Goldman. Goldman seems driven by a need to water down the book's politics and idealism with post-modern analysis and arguments that can be a real downer for anyone who hasn't read the book before. He seems to want to strip down the book's relevance by using very weak points such as the fact that a democratic movement moved Pinochet out of power a few years after the book was published (although he forgets to mention that Pinochet was made a senator for life and remained head of the armed forces, something Chile is now trying to deal with by arresting former members of the regime), he sheds tears over Marquez being a supporter of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution even after fellow authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes converted to neoliberalism. Basically, Goldman tries to make the book seem irrelevant or aged with the same old complaints about how intellectuals of Marquez's generation supported revolutionary causes which yielded some disappointments. But Goldman forgets to mention how relevant a book like this always is because there are always people having to deal with exile and tyranny, just look at Honduras where a US-backed coup overthrew an elected government in 2009. And many of the social debates which took place under Allende can be seen today in Venezuela or Bolivia. Goldman's preface is a disappointing, almost pointless exercise in trying to convince you that while this is a good book, the ideas in it are outdated. But history is never outdated, nor human experience.

"Clandestine In Chile" is brilliant journalism and biography, travelogue and political protest. It is a taste of Garcia Marquez many Americans are unfamiliar with, and not only will they discover Marquez the nonfiction storyteller here, they might also learn a thing or two about the world just across the border and down at the tip of the continent.

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Booooring.

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Anon

Four Stars

Reviewed in India on August 7, 2017

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Luc REYNAERT

A Stasi State

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2009

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This book tells the extraordinary story of the clandestine return of movie director Miguel Littín to Chile 12 years after the military coup against the democratically elected President Salvador Allende in 1973.
Miguel Littín's life was saved during the coup by a movie buff: `Didn't you direct "El Chacal de Nahualtoro"?'

The tragic scenes of the coup continue to haunt the director: `gangs of men in civilian clothes clubbing President Allende's supporters to death. We also saw a line of prisoners with their backs against a wall and a squad of soldiers pretending they were going to execute them.'

After the coup, Chile's society turned into a fascist State with book burnings (15000 copies of this book were burned by the Chilean authorities on Nov 28 1986, Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda's house was sacked by soldiers who threw his books onto a bonfire), with summary executions, outright killings of opposition militants and spies all over the place; in one word, a Stasi State.

Chile's economy
After the military coup, `within a five-year period more goods were imported than in the previous two hundred years by using dollar credits. But when the time came to pay up, the illusion fell away. Chile's external debt increased to $23 billion, almost six times the debt of the Allende administration.'
Chile's economic `miracle' made a few of the rich much richer and the rest of the Chilean society much poorer.

Free Mason
Salvador Allende was a Free Mason. His grandfather established Chile's first Masonic Lodge. Another member of Salvador Allende's Lodge was Augusto Pinochet. Allende made the terrible mistake to consider Pinochet as a brother, while in fact the latter was a member of an international network of intelligence services. It was his job to keep an eye (and report) on the Lodge's activities.

Salvador Allende's humanistic philosophy, as well as his outstanding statesmanship, continues to be deeply ingrained in the memory of the poblaciones.

G. G. Márquez's book gives a true picture of life under the boots of a fascist dictator.
It is a must read for all historians and for all those who want to understand the world we live in.

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K. Bancroft

Wonderful book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2013

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I loved this book - 'Gabo' is a master storyteller whether it be fiction of fact or a melding of each. The book itself was delivered promptly and in really good condition.

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David Mansel Bunford

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2013

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Quite disappointing considering the author's reputation as a great writer of fiction. It's a slight work of non-fiction which is neither very interesting nor very informative.

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D. Glowacki

Hmmm

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2011

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This is a rather nondescript book..The narrative is flat and the story is more "carry on" comedy than gripping thriller..l just did not care and it was totally uninvolving

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