Chile

5 banned books·Ranked #29 of 76 countries

Banned books

Cover of Canto General

Canto General

Pablo Neruda

Comprising 15 sections and over 300 separate poems, Neruda's epic masterwork traces the history of Spanish America from pre-Colombian innocence to modern corruption. This edition includes a comprehensive introduction and numerous photos of Neruda.

Literary fictionPolitical

Government / national · 1973 · lifted

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How to Read Donald Duck

Ariel Dorfman

First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney—curiously parentless, marginalized, always short of cash—Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart dissect the narratives of dependency and social aspiration that define the Disney corpus. Disney reco

Non-fictionPolitical fictionPolitical

Government / national · 1973 · lifted

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Memoirs

Pablo Neruda

MemoirNon-fictionPolitical

Government / national · 1973 · lifted

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Open Veins of Latin America

Eduardo Galeano

Non-fictionhistoryPolitical

Government / national · 1973 · lifted

Cover of The Open Veins of Latin America

The Open Veins of Latin America

Eduardo Galeano

Non-fictionHistorical fictionPolitical

Government / national · 1973 · lifted