Mascara

Ariel Dorfman. Penguin Books, $7.95 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-14-011253-5

A paranoiac monologue by a nameless man with a face that no one recognizes or remembers reveals a life of carefully constructed obscurity. ``Chilean exile Dorfman's latest work (after The Last Song of Manuel Sendero ) is a tantalizingly ambiguous web of deceit, intrigue and obsession,'' said PW. (Oct.)

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