Author: Ariel Dorfman
- Fiction
- Siete Cuentos Editorial 
- ISBN: 9781583220788
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Marcelo Ayala

Death and the Maiden, a theatrical work by this renowned Chilean writer, was originally published in 1991 and taken to the screen by Roman Polanski in 1994. Dorfman (poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and fervent human rights activist) has also been Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Chile. the University of Amsterdam, the Sorbonne (Paris IV), the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Maryland. Since 1985 he has been a Professor of Latin American Studies at Duke University and a researcher at many other universities in the United States. In 1971, in collaboration with Armand Mattelert, he wrote Reading Donald Duck, where both describe the ideological components of the animations of Walt Disney, from the perspective of both Marxist and psychoanalytic theories. This work was the impetus for much subsequent research into the ideological impact of children's literature, including Babar the Elephant and the Lone Ranger, as well as into other manifestations of mass culture.