Why has Chile, a country with a small population, produced so many world class writers, musicians and poets? Ariel Dorfman explains: “It’s a place where the best and the worst things can happen. It’s a land of great mysteries, of many contrasts.” He then goes on to give his personal background and inspirations that have made him a trenchant social critic, essayist and novelist.

Recorded at the University of Colorado at Boulder.