Volume 45, Number 8 · May 14, 1998
The Dirty War
By Kenneth Maxwell
A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
by Marguerite Feitlowitz
Oxford University Press, 310 pp., $30.00
A Lexicon of Terror is a searing account of the Argentine Dirty War which claimed over 30,000 lives between 1976 and 1983. The author, who teaches writing and literary translation at Harvard, spent six years of harrowing research among those who survived unspeakable mental and physical torment in the military dictatorship's torture chambers. She spoke with many parents who had seen their children disappear into the 'night and fog' of the Argentine terror.
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