In Europe and the USA, this book had the effect of a bomb exploding, and in Chile its first edition was destroyed on the personal order of Augusto Pinochet...In 1985, director Miguel Littin, exiled from Chile, returned illegally to make a film about what Twelve years of military dictatorship transformed the country. Despite mortal danger, using a hidden camera, he created the unique film “The Universal Declaration of Chile,” which was awarded a prize at the Venice Film Festival. Marquez's documentary novel is not just a fascinating story of Littin's adventures in his long-suffering homeland. This is a magnificent stylization in the spirit of adventurous Spanish prose of the 16th–17th centuries.