Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Translator: Byeong-seon Song
Publisher: Munhakdongne
Hardcover | 2-vol. set | 203*137mm
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About This Book
Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is
better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of
Latin American politics. In The Feast of the Goat he offers a vivid
re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General
Rafael Trujillo's insidious and evil regime. Told from several
viewpoints, the book has three distinctive, alternating strands. There
is Urania Cabral, the daughter of Trujillo's disgraced secretary of
state, who has returned to Santo Domingo after more than 30 years. Now a
successful New York lawyer, Urania has never forgiven her aging and
paralyzed father, Agustin, for literally sacrificing her to the carnal
despot in the hope of regaining his political post. Flipping back to May
of 1961, there is a group of assassins, all equally scarred by Trujillo,
waiting to gun the Generalissimo down. Finally there is an astonishing
portrait of Trujillo--the Goat--and his grotesque coterie. Llosa depicts
Trujillo as a villain of Shakespearean proportions. He is a preening,
macho dandy who equates his own virility with the nation's health. An
admirer of Hitler "not for his ideas but for the way he wore a uniform"
(fittingly he equips his secret police force with a fleet of black
Volkswagen Beetles), Trujillo even has his own Himler in Colonel Abbes
Garcia, a vicious torturer with a predilection for the occult.
As the novel edges toward Trujillo's inevitable murder, Urania's story
gets a bit lost in the action; the remaining narratives however, are
rarely short of mesmerizing. Trujillo's death unleashes a new order, but
not the one expected by the conspirators. Enslaved by the soul of the
dead chief, neither they nor the Trujillo family--who embark on a
hideous spree of bloody reprisals--are able to fill the void. Llosa has
them all skillfully outmaneuvered by the puppet-president Joaquin
Belaguer, a former poet who is the very antithesis of the machismo Goat.
Savage, touching, and bleakly funny, this compelling book gives an all
too human face to one of Latin America's most destructive tyrants.
--Travis Elborough
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