The Feast Of The Goat

Oct 08, 2012 Jenn(ifer) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nobel-laureates, dark, gave-me-chills, own, read-in-2012, you-should-read-this

Render unto God what is God’s and unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

But what if Caesar thought he was God? Well then, I guess he’d want it all.

And so goes the story of Rafael Trujillo, power hungry dictator of the Dominican Republic for a period of thirty years until his brutal assassination in 1961. ‘Feast of the Goat’ tells the story of Trujillo’s reign using a blend of fact and fiction, centered on the fateful day that would end an era. Varied narratives blend together seemlessly to give us a port...more

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Mar 21, 2013 Lona rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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{هكذا هي السياسة ،إنها شق الطريق بين الجثث}

أحب هذا النوع من الروايات كثيراً، تلك الروايات التي تأخذني لبقعة من الأرض لم أعطها من قبل أي أهمية، وتسلط عليها الضوء في حقبة تاريخية كانت حقبة سوداء مليئة بالفظائع تحت حكم ديكتاتور نصَّب نفسه إلهاً على تلك الأرض .. .. حصيلة القراءة ستكون بلاد، تاريخ، علم وشخصيات جديدة لأنها ستستفز من يقرأها للبحث عن معلومات أكثر عنها لأنها "رواية" ولذلك ستُكتب بتصرف شديد ومن يبحث عن معلومة لن يعوِّل عليها كثيرا كمصدر معلوماتي لأنها كما قلت رواية

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{هكذا هي السياسة ،إنها شق الطريق بين الجثث}

أحب هذا النوع من الروايات كثيراً، تلك الروايات التي تأخذني لبقعة من الأرض لم أعطها من قبل أي أهمية، وتسلط عليها الضوء في حقبة تاريخية كانت حقبة سوداء مليئة بالفظائع تحت حكم ديكتاتور نصَّب نفسه إلهاً على تلك الأرض .. .. حصيلة القراءة ستكون بلاد، تاريخ، علم وشخصيات جديدة لأنها ستستفز من يقرأها للبحث عن معلومات أكثر عنها لأنها "رواية" ولذلك ستُكتب بتصرف شديد ومن يبحث عن معلومة لن يعوِّل عليها كثيرا كمصدر معلوماتي لأنها كما قلت رواية

عن "جمهورية الدومينيكان" أتحدث التي تقع في الجزء الشرقي من جزيرة "هيسبانيولا" التي وضع عليها كريستوفر كولومبس قدمه عام 1492 معلنا اكتشافه العظيم .. .. أما عن الديكتاتور الذي نصَّب نفسه إلهاً على هذه الدولة فهو "رافائيل ليونيداس تروخييو مولينا"، حكمها بالعصا ونجح في الواقع أن يجعلها تقف على قدميها وأيضاً في كسر شوكة جارتها و عدوَّها اللدود هاييتي ولكن كل ذلك الطريق شقه بين الجثث، جثث شعبه (عبيده) وأعداءه، وهو من النوع الذي يضع هدفاً وسيحققه ولو كان الثمن موته

{مهما كانت المفاجآت التي يخبئها لنا المستقبل، فإننا متأكدون من أنه يمكن للعالم أن يرى تروخييو ميتاً، ولكنه لن يراه فارّاً مثل باتيستا، ولا هارباً مثل بيرث خيمينيث، ولا جالساً وراء قضبان محكمة مثل روخاس بينّيّا. فرجل الدولة الدومينيكاني من نوعية أخلاقية أخرى ومن سلالة أخرى}

ولهذا فعملية اغتيال هذا الرجل في 30 من مايو عام 1961 هي أساس الرواية والحدث الرئيسي بها .. .. في هذه الرواية جزئية تصف لنا عمليات التعذيب التي حدثت لمن قاموا باغتيال "التيس"، صور تقشعر لها الأبدان ولكن يبقى المشهد الذي هزني من الداخل وجعلني أتوقف لدقائق لأستوعب قليلاً،استرد أنفاسي وأجفف ما نزل من دموعي هو:-
{وبعد مرور أسبوعين أو ثلاثة، وبدلاً من طبق دقيق الذرة المعفن المعهود، احضروا لهما إلى الزنزانة قدراً فيها قطع لحم. فاختنق "ميغيل آنخل بايث" و"موديستو دياث" وهما يأكلان بأيديهما حتى شبعا. فعاد السّجان للدخول بعد قليل. وواجه "بايث" مباشرة قائلاً له إن الجنرال رامفيس تروخييو (ابن التيس المغتال) يريد أن يعرف إذا كان لا يشعر بالقرف من نفسه وهو يأكل لحم ابنه. فشتمه "ميغيل" وهو جالس على الأرض:- "قل للقذر ابن العاهرة هذا أن يبتلع لسانه المسموم لعله يتسمم". فانفجر السجان في الضحك. ثم غادر ورجع ليعرض عليه من الباب رأساً فتياً يحمله من شعره. وقد مات "ميغيل آنخيل دياث" بعد ساعات من ذلك، بين ذراعي "موديستو"، بسكتة قلبيه

صورة "ميغيل آنخل" تلك وهو يتعرف على رأس ابنه البكر ميغيليتو، تسلطت على ذهن سلفادور، وصارت تأتيه كوابيس يرى فيها ابنه "لويسيتو" وابنته "كارمن إيللي" مقطوعي الرأس} .. .. سلفادور من الشخصيات الرائعة في هذا الرواية بالمناسبة

شخصيات الرواية تفنن "يوسا" في وصفها لدرجة الإبداع، رهيب هذا "اليوسا" لم يبخل أبداً في كتابته عن دواخل وخوارج شخصياته، صور ثلاثية الأبعاد هو ما يكتبه هذا الرجل .. .. النص متداخل في بعضه، في بعض المواضع يسرد حدثاً وينهيه ويعود ويسرده مرة أخرى من وجهة نظر شخصية أخرى، هذا الذهاب للنهاية والعودة مرة أخرى لبداية الحدث يعطي صورة كاملة من جميع المواضع خارجياً وداخلياً.. .. باختصار (لا أبرع فيه) هي رواية ثرية جداً .. .. الكوميديا السوداء أحد أسلحة هذا الكاتب ففي ظل السوداوية والبؤس لا يبخل علينا بتلك التفصيلات والألفاظ التي تسرق منَّا ضحكات أثناء القراءة

صحيح أنها رواية، وهذا يعني أنها تحمل العديد من الرتوشات وتصرَّف فيها الراوي بالكثير من الأحداث، ففي النهاية من الممكن أنه يريد أن يوصل وجهة نظره في ما حدث وليس ما حدث . ولكني بما حدث ويحدث في عالمنا هذه الأيام من العجائب التي تجعلني أفكر بما لا يجب التفكير به (...........) مؤمنه إيماناً كاملاً أن ما يحدث في هذا العالم لم ولن يستطيع روائي أن يصل بخياله مهما كان جامحاً لوصف بؤسه وما يمكن أن يفعله بعض اللابشر .. .. وأعيد ما اقتبسته في أول مراجعتي:-
{هكذا هي السياسة ،إنها شق الطريق بين الجثث}

هذه الرواية التي كتبها ماريو بارغاس يوسا وترجمها صالح العلماني كانت نصاً وتجربة لا تنسى بالتأكيد، صحيح أنها مؤلمة و صادمة بمحتواها لكنها ستبقى من تلك التجارب التي قليلاً ما أتعثّر بها و تصبح الروايات التي أقرأها بعدها في موضع لا تحسد عليه لأنها عند التقييم ستقارن لا إرادياً بهذه الرواية

ملاحظة: عيب الرواية الوحيد (ومن الممكن أن يكون الغلط فيّا أنا) صعوبة الأسماء الكثيرة وصعوبة ربطها بأشخاصها .. هنا أنصح وبشدة القراءة بتركيز ومجاز قرائي عالي

أعتقد يكفي .. ثرثرت كثيراً
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ما بين {...} مقتبس من الرواية

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Oct 25, 2012 Tanuj Solanki rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: latin-america, library, dictator-novel, peru, nobel-prize

In Innaritu's movies, time moves forward, backward, it expands, it contracts. Time runs at different paces in various narratives, all of which emanate from or conclude in one grand event, an event which usually falls somewhere in the middle of the movie. An example is the car accident in the movie 'Amores Perros', where three different stories collide and then strike away in new directions, with different speeds. New narratives are floated, at times, to fill the logical holes in "the story". Inn...more In Innaritu's movies, time moves forward, backward, it expands, it contracts. Time runs at different paces in various narratives, all of which emanate from or conclude in one grand event, an event which usually falls somewhere in the middle of the movie. An example is the car accident in the movie 'Amores Perros', where three different stories collide and then strike away in new directions, with different speeds. New narratives are floated, at times, to fill the logical holes in "the story". Innaritu flips and cut between stories to maintain high energy at most times, except in the select moments when a poignant emotion is required to be evoked.

Llosa's novel approaches the neurosis one finds in Innaritu's movies, but not completely. It is only after the major event in the middle of the work - the process and culmination of Trujillo's assassination - that the novel acquires a easy fluidity with time. Before that, a knowing reader can almost feel all the tricks that Llosa employs. It is only in the second half that the superb cinematic quality of the events lends itself absolutely to the structure and style, providing an experience similar to watching an violent explosion in detail, from various frenetic perspectives, with a clear view of all shards and splinters. We are obliged to feel terror, abhorrence, exhilaration, and excitement, words which we may lead us to think of the novel as successful as a whole.

However, Llosa's novel is not successful. Because there is that burdening fatigue even before we reach that massive event in the middle. There is ennui when one is made to wait too long for an explosion.

Q: What gives us this fatigue, this ennui?
A: The novel's lousy first half, where Llosa sticks to building one-to-two dimensional characters who never suffer a change (or who have suffered so much that they can't change) merely to prepare us for the finale. All is drab, and nothing is intended to be subtle. The big example is Trujillo. Granted that the dictator's weak bladder was a good ruse, but that being the only dimension to this person is a folly that may be excused a historian, but not to a novelist. One wonders if Llosa is so convinced of the pulsating nature of his story (most of it due to history) that he forgoes the classic requirements of a novel. He does try formal invention. We begin with three different narrative lines that converge (somewhat) later in the novel. Trujillo's perspective, and that of his assassins-in-waiting, seem to be part of the same story, but the third one, trying to portray the long term effects of the Trujillo era on the individual, seems incoherent, right from the beginning.(less)

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Oct 13, 2011 William rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: peru, 20-ce, fiction, translation

Mr Llosa can write. I won't dispute that. But this is not a good novel for me for the following reasons. (1) The author has bitten off far more than he can chew in a mere 400 pages. The scope of the book is vast and too much feels rushed. He might have narrowed his scope, but alas he wants it all. Because of the enormous narrative breadth, this reader never got the level of satisfaction in the area of character development that he would have liked; there are so many characters and after a while...more Mr Llosa can write. I won't dispute that. But this is not a good novel for me for the following reasons. (1) The author has bitten off far more than he can chew in a mere 400 pages. The scope of the book is vast and too much feels rushed. He might have narrowed his scope, but alas he wants it all. Because of the enormous narrative breadth, this reader never got the level of satisfaction in the area of character development that he would have liked; there are so many characters and after a while they all seem to blur. (2) There is a rushed, headlong quality to the book, probably this is intentional but I do not like it. (3) I find the levels of Catholic motivation to be too much; probably for a Latin American reader these levels are just right. For these and other reasons I did not finish the book and give it two stars.

The book breaks into three stories: (1) that of Urania Cabral, set in the present day, when she returns to a now democratized Dominican Republic years after Trujillo's assassination to confront (torment) her father who was a "senator" (read crony) under the Benefactor; (2) that of Trujillo himself in the weeks before his assassination; and (3) that of the group of men, mostly young men, who will kill him.

The story Urania tells to her incapacitated father, who is now in a wheelchair, is most unsettling. Urania is visiting from New York City where she now lives. She has done extensive reading on the subject, now knows much about those dark mysterious years of her youth. For example, how Trujillo, habitually cuckolded his ministers. Urania spares her mute father none of it. She is so cruel.

Dictator Trujillo is a megalomaniac on the model of Stalin. He terrorized his own people for 31 years. In October 1937 he ordered the slaughter of about 20,000 Haitians in what came to be known as the Parsley Massacre. Typically, the US backed him as a bulwark against Communism. (Now where have we seen that pattern before? Chile, Vietnam, Cuba, and Korea spring to mind, to mention a few.)

Trujillo's a compulsive neat freak who seeks through personal cleanliness and punctilio a semblance of the moral standing he can never command. We first come across him undergoing his daily toilette with great care. Trujillo's story begins in 1961 some 16 months after a Pastoral Letter has been sent by the Vatican to the Catholic community in the Dominican Republic. Since then the Church has, Trujillo feels, harassed him from the pulpit for his flagrant human rights violations and turned the people against him. The two Catholic leaders responsible for this he imagines feeding alive to sharks, as he has so many other opponents.

The assassins's storyline is set on May 30, 1961, as they await the Generalissimo's car on a stretch of road. There are 4 of them in the car and as they wait there are flashbacks outlining the motivations of each. This is tedious.

In some ways The Feast of the Goat is a counterpart novel to Graham Greene's The Comedians. That book--set in Haiti on the other side of Hispaniola in the 1960s when the corrupt Duvaliers were in power--is a model of narrative pacing and economy.(less)

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Dec 04, 2009 Nojood Alsudairi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arabic-books, translations

تاريخ حافل بالعنف هو ما صوره لنا الكاتب عن ماضي جمهورية الدومينيك (أو الدومينيكان) بعد تحررها من استعمار هايتي. تسلط وعنصرية ورعب عشناها مع الرئيس ولكن! لا يملك القاريء سوى أن يعجب بالشخصية الدكتاتورية للرئيس الذي ظن بأنه يعمل طول الوقت لصالح البلد بالرغم من كل ما عمله
أحببت الرواية من بدايتها لنهايتها وحان الوقت الآن للقراءة عن هذه الجمهورية الأمريكية الجنوبية
حبكة الرواية صحيحة
الرئيس تروخيو استلم الحكم لمدة ثلاثين سنة وحكم البلاد بدكتاتورية
رئيس الجمهورية بالاغار أعقبه في الحكم
هنا يأتي السؤال الأ...more

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May 03, 2010 Mashael Alamri rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: latin-literature, books-in-2010, favorites

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عن الدومينيكان تحدث بارغاس , عن فترة حكم تروخييو, يقف في أعلى نقطة للهرم وبخيوط يحرك الوزراء و الشعب و العذروات وفقاً لهواه من خلف نظارته الداكنة , لمدة ثلاثين عام زرع الرعب و الحذر حتى أنه وبعد اغتياله عجز الشعب أن يصرّف أموره بسرعة لأن عقدة الجنراليسمو كانت لازالت تتشبث بالفزع داخلهم .
عهد مظلم حجب الدومينيكان عن العالم الخارجي وفرضت عليها عقوبات من المجتمع الدولي الذي يرفض طاغية طالت يده الملطخة بالدماء كل أنحاء العالم لتقتل , ولأجل الوطن فقط يضحي مجموعة متآمرين بأنفسهم وعائلاتهم في سبيل قت...more .
عن الدومينيكان تحدث بارغاس , عن فترة حكم تروخييو, يقف في أعلى نقطة للهرم وبخيوط يحرك الوزراء و الشعب و العذروات وفقاً لهواه من خلف نظارته الداكنة , لمدة ثلاثين عام زرع الرعب و الحذر حتى أنه وبعد اغتياله عجز الشعب أن يصرّف أموره بسرعة لأن عقدة الجنراليسمو كانت لازالت تتشبث بالفزع داخلهم .
عهد مظلم حجب الدومينيكان عن العالم الخارجي وفرضت عليها عقوبات من المجتمع الدولي الذي يرفض طاغية طالت يده الملطخة بالدماء كل أنحاء العالم لتقتل , ولأجل الوطن فقط يضحي مجموعة متآمرين بأنفسهم وعائلاتهم في سبيل قتل هذا التروخييو.
وصف لنا براغاس ببراعة الرواي كيف للمتناقضات الدكتاتورية والخنوع القوة والخوف الثأر والاستسلام , حلل دوافع كل " أبطال الاغتيال " واضطراباتهم الداخلية , وأظهر بارغاس من خلال الرواية ذلك السياسي الذي يعيش داخله كيف يفهم اللعبة القذرة التي تتبدل بها الولاءات والآراء في غمضة عين أو بسرعة طلقت الرصاصة التي أنهت حياة الديكتاتور , يتنقل الراوي بين القصص الإنسانية و الأوضاع التي يعيشها الدومنكانيين مع الحظر الذي ترزح تحت وطئته بلادهم والبذخ الذي تتقلب به عائلة الزعيم بدأها بأنثى تعود لوطن كادت أن تنساه وهي محمله بوجع وذكريات مرّة عن الانتهاك الذي وقعت فيه إنسانيتها و تعود لتحمل نفسها وقد أصبحت خفيفة بعد أن أفرغت غلّها في لقاء أسري و نظرات عجوز مشلول لا يكاد يفهم شيئاً مما تقوله سوى أنها أبنته الهاربة منه ومن التيس ومن الوطن .

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Apr 01, 2007 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars

Comence a leerlo un jueves de un ya lejano ano 2000. Extranamente, el dia siguiente no fue uno de copas sino de tranquilidad en mi departamento. Agarre el libro a las 10 de la noche y no pude parar hasta las 4 de la manana (soy un lector lento). Me parece demasiado ambicioso desde un punto de vista historico calificar a esta como una novela historica. Imagino que la imaginacion de Vargas Llosa permea muchas de las situaciones del libro, pero realmente esta basado (presumo que tal vez vagamente)...more

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Mar 09, 2011 Praj rated it 3 of 5 stars

I find the expression “benevolent dictator” quite acerbic; paradoxical in fact. The exclusive benefactor of populous land; a leader who promises to the countrymen a utopia (Thomas Moore’s unicorn), stands on the world pedestal portraying duplicitous cultural patriotism while butchering every free voice that fails to meet his egotistical standards and motives. Questions stumble upon patriotic validities. Who do we call a true loyalist of a country? The leader who cogently assumes the role of a sa...more I find the expression “benevolent dictator” quite acerbic; paradoxical in fact. The exclusive benefactor of populous land; a leader who promises to the countrymen a utopia (Thomas Moore’s unicorn), stands on the world pedestal portraying duplicitous cultural patriotism while butchering every free voice that fails to meet his egotistical standards and motives. Questions stumble upon patriotic validities. Who do we call a true loyalist of a country? The leader who cogently assumes the role of a saviour bestowing atrocities on his own people or those anonymous victims who take a powerful stand to fight against the authoritative rule?

The Feast of the Goat makes you sit up and take notice of a fascinating Dominican Republic and its people rising up from an authoritative rule and numerous domestic strives that spanned over a large period in the 20th century. Llosa intertwines three tales forming a purposeful camaraderie between reality and literature encompassing the treacherous dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina ruling over three decades and the aftermath of Trujillo’s assassination. After 35 years, Urania Cabral hesitantly comes back to her home in Santa Domingo to visit her ailing father. Agustin Cabral once a highly influential part of Trujillo’s inner circle, is now reduced to a vegetative state aching to seek Urania’s forgiveness for a crime he committed decades ago. The novel lifts off from splendid fiction into the factual reign of Trujillo and the following assassination. Llosa gives a terrifying look into the sinister inner circle of Trujillo exposing brutal crimes of rape, embezzlements and the horrendous murder of the Mirabal Sisters, committed by him and his son(Ramfis Trujillo).On May 30, 1961, Trujillo was shot on Avenida George Washington in Santo Domingo on his way to visit one of his several underage girls ,plotted by Modesto Diaz, Salvador Estrella Sadhalá, Antonio de la Maza, Amado García Guerrero along with a team of men from Trujillo’s ministry. The tone of the plot is mysterious penetrating the psyche of those groups of heroic men and thousands of Dominican people who suffered and lived in utmost terror for a major part of a generation.

It is exasperating how the international media springs through popular news whilst overlooking the histories of various nations victimized from treachery and charades of nationalistic sovereignty. Heroic sacrifices are forgotten and Angelita Trujillo has the nerve to write a book about her father proclaiming him to be a “admirable, a dedicated fighter and a triumphant man”.

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Jan 14, 2013 Nancy Oakes rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: latin-american-fiction, translated-fiction

A simply stellar novel of which the author states the following:

"It's a novel, not a history book, so I took many, many liberties. The only limitation I imposed on myself was that I was not going to invent anything that couldn't have happened within the framework of life in the Dominican Republic. I have respected the basic facts, but I have changed and deformed many things in order to make the story more persuasive -- and I have not exaggerated."

For a longer discussion, you can click through h ...more A simply stellar novel of which the author states the following:

"It's a novel, not a history book, so I took many, many liberties. The only limitation I imposed on myself was that I was not going to invent anything that couldn't have happened within the framework of life in the Dominican Republic. I have respected the basic facts, but I have changed and deformed many things in order to make the story more persuasive -- and I have not exaggerated."

For a longer discussion, you can click through here; otherwise continue reading.

In his retelling of the last days of the life of dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo who held absolute control over the lives of people in the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961, the author employs three narrative strands that weave through each other, or as he calls them, "trajectories," to tell his story. The first is via the return of Urania Cabral, daughter of Agustin Cabral, once a powerful member of Trujillo's staff before his ultimate downfall. After leaving for America at the age of 14 some 35 years earlier, Urania has finally returned to face the demons that drove her away; in the meantime she has been spending her time studying law, taking a position with the World Bank, and reading everything she could get her hands on about the Trujillo regime to try and understand what happened to her, and the reasons for her self-imposed exile. Her father can't explain it to her; he has suffered a stroke which renders him unable to speak; flashbacks reveal what Agustin is unable to tell her. Urania's own tragedy, eventually related to two incredulous female relatives, underscores the monster that Trujillo has become, but at the same time, it also illustrates exactly what sacrifices people who enjoy his good graces will make to maintain their status quo.

A second narrative thread is taken up by the conspirators, including some of Trujillo's closest trusted military officers.While they lay in wait for Trujillo's car to pass by, the reasons behind their actions are revealed. Everything has been carefully planned, not only in terms of the assassination itself, but what is supposed to happen next -- a coup which will take out the existing Trujillistas, most notably Johnny Abbes Garcia, the sinister head of the SIM (military intelligence), and replace them with a junta with General "Pupo" Román at its head.

Finally, the third voice is that of Trujillo on the last day of his life. He spends time in the past, recounting his disappointment in his sons, his sexual conquests, and events which he's experienced during his reign, interspersed with his present. As his body ages, he is plagued by problems with his prostate, which have made him both incontinent and impotent, a significant factor in not only his assassination, but in an earlier tragedy that brings the story full circle and highlights yet another theme of this novel in terms of the link between sex and power.

It's difficult to talk about this book and some of its symbolism without giving away the show, hence only a sketchy discussion here, but it is an excellent novel. Even though, as noted above, the author took some liberties in putting his story together, sometimes it's difficult to figure out exactly what is fictional here simply because it is all so realistic, all so "could have happened."

If you peruse the vast number of critical reviews of this novel, you will discover a wealth of symbolism lying beneath the action of this novel; if like me you're more of a casual reader and can't catch every single nuance, that's okay. Feast of the Goat is not for the squeamish; if you're upset about yet another novel highlighting the evil that people do then pass on this one. If, however, you are interested in circumstances that can create a person like Trujillo who can keep an entire nation paralyzed in the grip of his authority, this is a good place to start. Although helpful, even if you know nothing about the Dominican Republic or its history, it's definitely not a deal breaker -- the author makes everything extremely clear. Most highly recommended for readers of historical fiction, and for readers of the so-called "Dictator novel" form, where writers have used their literary talents to respond to tyranny, an area I plan to further explore in the near future.

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Sep 01, 2012 Mikela rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I didn't exactly enjoy reading this book. I am not into enjoying reading about the suffering of others, the total subjugation of a nation, the corruption of their souls and the torture of their bodies. I learned many things from this book that I wasn't aware of, some history of the Dominican Republic and what is known as the Trujillo era. So while I didn't "enjoy" the book, it was hard to put down, I had to continue, to keep reading and I'm glad that I did. This book is not light reading, but de...more

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Jan 05, 2012 Ahmad rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read the novel because I wanted to read something that explored the mind of the despot, partly because despots (Mubarak, Ghaddafi, Kim Jong-il, Saleh etc) and despotic laws and actions (like indefinite detention, protest crackdowns etc) were all the rage last year. I started Marquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch but couldn't get into it and came across The Feast of the Goat at about the same time. It is the second novel by Vargas Llosa that I've read and enjoyed thoroughly. Like the first (Aunt Ju...more I read the novel because I wanted to read something that explored the mind of the despot, partly because despots (Mubarak, Ghaddafi, Kim Jong-il, Saleh etc) and despotic laws and actions (like indefinite detention, protest crackdowns etc) were all the rage last year. I started Marquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch but couldn't get into it and came across The Feast of the Goat at about the same time. It is the second novel by Vargas Llosa that I've read and enjoyed thoroughly. Like the first (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter) it isn't exactly a literary masterpiece but quite good and fast-paced. The novel follows the stories of three sets of protagonists; the returning daughter of a disgraced politician (in the 90s), a group of assassins waiting on Trujillo and most convincingly, the old goat himself.
Although Vargas Llosa's writing is devoid of the vivid imagery and symbolism of his South American peers, his talent for narration and suspense is unmatched. He also manages to describe in some detail and with wry dark humour some of the prominent Trujillistas of the era like the psychotic Johnny Abbes (who walks around the presidential palace reading books on medieval Chinese torture), the Constitutional Sot or the Walking Turd and the debauched and sadistic Ramfes Trujillo. All humour though, dissipates towards the end of the novel as the barbaric reality of the regime is shown with graphic descriptions of torture and rape. Having never studied Dominican history, I don’t know how historically accurate the factual aspects of the novel are (some parts of the novel like the Cabral family are made up). One aspect of Trujillo’s rule though that seems to be given a pass is his ordering of the Parsley Massacres. The author through one of the characters does tell us of “innocents” being killed but otherwise he seems to allude that the massacres were necessary for the Dominican Republic to survive (am I being too harsh?). In all though, the novel does succeed in convincingly describing the mind of a despot and convincingly links dictator dominance to hyper-sexuality and machismo. It shows that despite some beneficial aspects of strongman rule (things get done with minimal bureaucracy), the eventual result from the corrupting influence of power, the personality cult and the inevitable avarice of the dictator’s family permeates like a cancer through every level of society and leads to misery, isolation and horror.
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Sep 12, 2011 Hilcia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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The people celebrate
and go all the way
for the Feast of the Goat
the Thirtieth of May.

—“They Killed the Goat”
A Dominican merengue

The Feast of the Goat or La Fiesta del Chivo is a fictionalized account of the Trujillo Era written by the Peruvian writer and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa. This powerful and haunting historical fiction novel depicts the last day in the life of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina who held power over his people in the Dominican Republic bet...more

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Oct 19, 2008 Simon rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Mesmerising and powerfully told story of life in the Dominician Republic under it's despotic and corrupt dictator Rafael Trujillo.

What I found interesting:
- Descriptions of the Dominician Republic - a place I heard of but really knew nothing about
- The cult of personality around Trujillo
- How Trujillo would corrupt all his ministers and tie them into him
- The echos of the Nazi police state down to Trujillo's own hachet man and the black volkswagons
- The black comedy surrounding life under Trulli...more

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May 03, 2007 Alexander Santiago rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: everyone

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Llosa's "The Feast of Goat" is, perhaps, the most unsettling, disturbing account of historical fiction (as he has taken some liberties with certain events and people) regarding the darkest period of my ancestral country's 500 plus years existence (in the New World sense): the 30 plus year rule of tight-fisted dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. The novel centers on Urania Cabral (I couldnt help but laugh at that name, as we Dominicans have a propensity to adorn our children...more Llosa's "The Feast of Goat" is, perhaps, the most unsettling, disturbing account of historical fiction (as he has taken some liberties with certain events and people) regarding the darkest period of my ancestral country's 500 plus years existence (in the New World sense): the 30 plus year rule of tight-fisted dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. The novel centers on Urania Cabral (I couldnt help but laugh at that name, as we Dominicans have a propensity to adorn our children with 'unique' names), a Dominicana in America who returns to the island after a 35 year self-imposed exile to confront the demons of the past, and the father whom she hated - the former Senator Augustin "Egghead" Cabral, a man who worked closely in and with the Trujillo machine.

The novel veers back and forth between time periods with the greatest of ease: Urania's trepid journey back on the island, dealing with the mixed emotions and confronting her father, to the events during Trujillo's despotic reign of terror who sent dissenters and enemies of the state to the dreaded and feared places of La Cuerenta, La Victoria or El Nueve (or fed to the sharks off the coast), and the sadistic thugs who did his bidding, until the inevitable demise of Trujillo and his regime.

From the historical aspect of the novel, there was quite wealth of truth that was woven into the story: Santo Domingo being renamed "Ciudad Trujillo" during his reign; His son Ramfis (who wasn't his biological son), who he tried to groom to be his successor, only to be his greatest disappointment as he was nothing more than a 'bon vivant'; his hatred of the Haitian blood that flowed in his veins; Balaguer being the President of the Republic (in name only and in actuality after the Goat's death), Trujillo's demise on that dark highway planned by a small resistance, and the list goes on.

Trujillo has always held something of an enigmatic, if not morbid fascination for me, and he remains very much a taboo subject amongst Dominicans (at least with the older generation who lived during that era). I will say that this book shook me to the core of my being, in that one man with so much power who could incite so much fear into a country and its citizens, and mete out punishment and torture with impunity, yet slowly losing his grip on the gravity of the situation and change that surrounds him. This brings to mind that old adage: evil deeds do not go unpunished. Very highly recommended!

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Jun 03, 2008 Ricardo rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Everyone who can 'handle' violence

Tres puntos de vista se entrelazan en esta novela que trata sobre el final de la espantosa dictadura de Trujillo en la República Dominicana. Por un lado está el retorno o visita de Urania desde los EE.UU. a Santo Domingo, representando quizá el pueblo dominicano en su negación y luego la tardía confrontación con los horrores y el barbarismo de Trujillo. Luego está el cuento de los conspiradores que asesinan a El Chivo, con sus motivaciones y las consecuencias personales que siguieron al magnicid...more

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May 19, 2013 George Polley rated it 5 of 5 stars

The popular uprising against Egypt's long time dictator Hosni Mubarak reminded me of Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The Feast of the Goat, about The Dominican Republic's long time dictator Rafael Trujillo. The similarities between the two dictatorships is crystal clear: Greed, an obsession with power and control, kleptomania of the dictator and his inner circle, brutal suppression of the people by the secret police and military, and the unwavering support of the U.S. government. In Trujillo's case t...more The popular uprising against Egypt's long time dictator Hosni Mubarak reminded me of Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The Feast of the Goat, about The Dominican Republic's long time dictator Rafael Trujillo. The similarities between the two dictatorships is crystal clear: Greed, an obsession with power and control, kleptomania of the dictator and his inner circle, brutal suppression of the people by the secret police and military, and the unwavering support of the U.S. government. In Trujillo's case things got so bad that he was assassinated, ending a thirty-one year dictatorship that left the Dominican Republic in shambles.

Vargas Llosa's novel begins with the return to the Dominican Republic of Urania Cabral, the daughter of a member of Trujillo's inner circle. "Urania. Her parents had done her no favor; her name suggested a planet, a mineral, anything but the slender, fine-featured woman with burnished skin and large, dark, rather sad eyes who looked back at her from the mirror. Urania! What an idea for a name. Fortunately nobody called her that anymore; now it was Uri, Miss Cabral, Ms. Cabral, Dr. Cabral."

Why has she returned to Santo Domingo when once she had said she would never in this life or the next return? To visit her father, whom she hasn't seen, spoken with or written to since she left at age fourteen for a private school in Michigan.

"He awoke paralyzed by a sense of catastrophe... At last he managed to stretch his hand toward the bedside table where he kept the revolver and the loaded submachine gun. But instead of a weapon he grasped the alarm clock." Thus we are introduced to the glorious dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo as he awakens early one morning. His mind scrolls back through his life, examines in detail his wife, his ne'er do well sons Ramfis and Radhamés, his conquests, his wealth, the men of his inner circle (the ingrates), and his aged body that refuses to perform as before. Reading, my mind flashed on Kim Jong-Il, North Korea's longtime self-obsessed ruler. The similarities between dictators are endless.

No one was secure in Trujillo's sick world. Remaining a member of his inner circle was deliberately not easy; at any moment, on a whim, one could find oneself tossed aside like a used piece of toilet tissue. If you were an attractive young woman, or had a pretty daughter, you'd best keep her out of Trujillo's sight, or he will pluck her for a night of "dancing" that will leave her in ruins and your position in no better shape. Sexually obsessed, he equated his virility with the nation's health and thrived on deflowering young maidens, considering it a blessing they had better thank him for.

When people finally had enough, they plotted his assassination, which occurred on May 30, 1961. The outcome, however, was not to be what they hoped for, as there was no swift recovery. "The Goat" might be dead, but his aura lingered on.

The Feast of the Goat is spellbinding. Simply stated, it is one of the best novels I have read in years.(less)

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May 10, 2013 Eslammohammed rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

ملاحظة هاااااااامة:هذا الريفيو مقتبس,وهو ملك ملكية خاصة لصاحبته الصديقة لونا على,يتقاطع مع وجهة نظرى حول الرواية,لذا وجب الاقتباس"لعدم التكرار:))",ولزم التنويه لحفظ الحقوق:):""{هكذا هي السياسة ،إنها شق الطريق بين الجثث}

أحب هذا النوع من الروايات كثيراً، تلك الروايات التي تأخذني لبقعة من الأرض لم أعطها من قبل أي أهمية، وتسلط عليها الضوء في حقبة تاريخية كانت حقبة سوداء مليئة بالفظائع تحت حكم ديكتاتور نصَّب نفسه إلهاً على تلك الأرض .. .. حصيلة القراءة ستكون بلاد، تاريخ، علم وشخصيات جديدة لأنها ستستف...more

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Nov 07, 2012 Cora rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Feast of the Goat is a historical novel (fiction) about the fall of the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic. The book presents many perspectives, from Trujillo himself, to those conspiring to assassinate him, to one of his victims returning to the country thirty years after the other events in the book. It is a fascinating book that shows how a tyrannical dictator destroys the lives of everyone around him. It was amazing how many of his collaborators remain fiercely loyal to him even as he...more

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Oct 26, 2012 Joselito Honestly and Brilliantly rated it 5 of 5 stars

Before I've read this one, the only thing I know about the Dominican Republic is that it is somewhere in South America and, of course, that it consistently has gorgeous representatives in international beauty contests. This well-written historical novel (my second of Llosa's: the first one--The War at the End of the World--likewise a historical novel) made me look it up in a world map and there I saw the small country in a big island it shares with Haiti and which is flanked by Cuba, Jamaica, Pu...more

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Sep 07, 2012 Maimoona Rahman rated it 3 of 5 stars

It's a good book, but not great. It's unforgettable, but not re-readable.

Llosa has developed an intense political thriller and his examination of a dictatorship is outstanding. He successfully paints the growth of a puppet government and a struggling dictatorship. Thumbs up to that.

But, character development in this book is limited, and we follow the story through the perspective of several characters, none of who are dynamic enough to merit attention or discussion. If the book were longer, pe...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Gijs rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Jun 19, 2012 Tiziana rated it 4 of 5 stars

I like to think that I am not usually easily taken in by pageturners, but this is something of an exception, since it IS a pageturner, and it is a great book.

I think that what makes this book particularly good and meaningful is that the political and the personal intermingle in a way that is both emotionally powerful and effective in conveying a strong message.
The book revisits the last days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic and its immediate aftermath from the perspective o...more

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Jun 07, 2012 tina added it

This took me a very long time to finish. If you've read it, you know it's divided in 3 parts: Urania's story, the Chief's story and the rebel story. I was absorbed by Urania's story, and interested in the Chief's, especially after it became Balaguer's story. But it was difficult for me to follow the rebel story. There were so many characters with similar names that looked a like, so I couldn't keep straight who was who.
Vargas Llosa took on a lot here-and it seems as though he was really working...more

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May 21, 2012 Claudio1973 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this as a companion to the Wondrous Brief Life of Oscar Wao, which got me interested in the history of the Dominican Republic (so of coures I turned to historical fiction rather than history). The novel interweaves the return in 1996 of middle-aged Urania to the Dominican Republic after a 36 year self-imposed exile, with two story lines from the last days of the Trujillo regime: one from Trujillo's point of view, and the other from the point of view of the hapless conspirators who manage...more

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Dec 23, 2011 Ajay R rated it 5 of 5 stars

Given the volatile geopolitical climate in South America, it is not surprising that a lot of writers from there have written about power and it's abuse. Losa's 'The Feast of the Goat' is one of the most unforgettable novels about total power. It's part fiction, based on the reign of 'Rafael Trujillo', dictator of Dominica and recounts the ordeals faced by the people, the abuse of power by Trujillo and his colleagues, an assassination attempt on his life and it's aftermath. Caught in the midst of...more Given the volatile geopolitical climate in South America, it is not surprising that a lot of writers from there have written about power and it's abuse. Losa's 'The Feast of the Goat' is one of the most unforgettable novels about total power. It's part fiction, based on the reign of 'Rafael Trujillo', dictator of Dominica and recounts the ordeals faced by the people, the abuse of power by Trujillo and his colleagues, an assassination attempt on his life and it's aftermath. Caught in the midst of all this are the innocent people, who suffer the most.
'Urania Cabral' is 49 and has been living in New York for the past 35 years in self imposed exile from Dominica and has been estranged from her father. The novel begins with her coming back to Dominica and meeting her father who is now an invalid. The novel diverges into 3 narratives at this point, one the present where Urania via a series of monologues with her father recalls the events of the past, the other is the events of a particular day of the regime in the past and the third is the about a group of people who are waiting to assassinate Trujillo at a particular location. The narratives intersect at a point where we come to know about the reason for Urania's exile and the aftermath of the assassination attempt.
As befitting a dictator, Trujillo is a man drowning in his own hubris, but is realistic enough to know that he has failed on some accounts. His family is a disappointment. The U.S, an ally till about an year ago is plotting to remove him and his sons aren't by his side to help him in his biggest battle. The country's economy is failing. He is incontinent and having prostate problems. But he still is the lord of what he surveys and is determined to fight till the end. Amidst all this, Losa shows us a glimpse of a man who probably started with a ideal in his mind, fought for it, achieved it and ultimately became corrupted by it, resulting in the creation of a corrupt and nepotist country.This doesn't reduce the evil of Trujillo, but serves to underscore the point that even the most evil of men could start off wanting something good, but somewhere along the line their path changes.

It may sound flippant, but when one considers the dictators of the world the thing that is most astonishing is not their capacity to dole out inhuman treatment, but rather the debasement suffered by their cronies and the general public who seem to almost revel in it. That's why Trujillo is able to humiliate a senator in a large gathering by saying that the senator's wife was the woman he had the best sex with, that's why he is able to make a general clean up a drain sewage. What makes them accept these humiliations without a murmur, have they become masochists? What drove 'Augustin Cabral' to do what he did, resulting in a living hell for himself and his daughter. What is that intangible that makes a dictator keep an entire country under his full control and subject it to his whim's and fancies. In that sense, this novel is as much about the political cronies as it is about Trujillo. Cronies who prostrate themselves before Trujillo, are engaged in the internal power struggles, jockeying for position and who in the heart of hearts would be ready to sell Trujillo, the instant the winds change. Is the taste of power (however small) and the prospect of money so great that one can suffer all these?

At the other end are the common people, people like Urania, the wives violated and young girls sexually abused by Trujillo and his family, people who have to prove their loyalty to the state by turning against their loved ones or at least have to suppress their anger when their loved ones are hurt by the state. These are the people who lose the most, getting nothing in return.

Losa is not sparing while detailing the nightmarish regime. Some parts, especially the account of what happened to Urania and the aftermath of the assassination attempt are horrendous and what makes them even worse is that you cannot wish it away saying that its only fiction. The claustrophobic atmosphere prevailing over the entire country is brought our clinically, a country where you do not know when the government or rather Trujillo could turn against and ruin you based on his whims, where you are not sure that your best friend wouldn't betray you to get ahead.

This is probably Losa's most stylistically realized novel. The intermingling of narratives and time shifts is done seamlessly and clinically with no room for confusion. It is almost visual in its presentation, one can actually see the scenes shifting from one narrative/timeline to another as in a movie. There is none of the ordered chaos of narration present in say 'The Green House' and to a lesser extent in 'The War Of the Worlds'. This is a highly controlled exhibition of stylistic narration.

This is not just a novel on Dominica, but a global one. The events in the novel could be applied to any country in the world, rename the tyrant and characters and the novel would sit just fine in any totalitarian regime. For instance, the personality cult prevailing in that period that Losa details may seem far fetched, but it may actually be lesser compared to real life. One needs to just think on the mythification of 'kim jong il' in the past week to see how pervasive and global it is. The events happening in North Korea was the reason I revisited this novel again. This novel along with 'Aunt Julia and the Scripwriter' are the best of Losa's works and exemplify the greatness of the man who can handle completely diverse genres with equal aplomb. These are must reads in Losa's oeuvre. (less)

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Dec 21, 2011 David rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Wow what a book! The Dominican Republic was ruled for thirty years by a dictator Rafael Trujillo when he was assassinated in 1961. My god this is 2011 and the Libyan leader Kadhafi is ousted, the Arab Spring happened and the Syrian leader tries to crush revolt. After reading this book, I was struck by all the factors that keep these people in power, and also how many people suffer because of it, but moreso, that nothing ever changes.

Vargas Llosa is a master ( hence his Nobel Laureate status) at...more

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Oct 24, 2011 Helena Prata rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Esta obra literária retrata o clima de opressão, medo e terror vivido na República Dominicana durante o governo do ditador Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, mais propriamente os momentos que antecedem o seu assassinato e o lento processo de democratização do país, protagonizado pelo presidente Joaquim Balaguer.

É curioso perceber como as personagens se vão movendo conforme os seus próprios interesses, passando por cima daquilo que sabem ser moralmente correcto, sem qualquer tipo de arrependimento, não he...more Esta obra literária retrata o clima de opressão, medo e terror vivido na República Dominicana durante o governo do ditador Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, mais propriamente os momentos que antecedem o seu assassinato e o lento processo de democratização do país, protagonizado pelo presidente Joaquim Balaguer.

É curioso perceber como as personagens se vão movendo conforme os seus próprios interesses, passando por cima daquilo que sabem ser moralmente correcto, sem qualquer tipo de arrependimento, não hesitando passar para a antítese do que defenderam durante anos não só como forma de sobrevivência, mas sobretudo pela ambição do poder. Faz lembrar um pouco a questão da evolução de Charles Darwin: os indivíduos que sobrevivem não são necessariamente os mais fortes ou mais inteligentes, mas sim os que se conseguem adaptar.

Isso explica como personagens que eram apoiantes directos do governo de Trujillo, adolando-o, prestando-lhe culto como um "Deus", humilhando-se para o servir, se conseguem adaptar às mudanças políticas que emplicaram o assassinato do "chefe supremo" e no momento da transição democrática aparecem a insultar a sua memória e como representantes da mudança e da liberdade...

É curioso como a memória dos povos é curta e se esquecem frequentemente dos horrorres cometidos pelos regimes ditatoriais, neste caso em particular havia pessoas que simplesmente desapareciam de um dia para outro, caso se suspeitasse que nutriam algum tipo de sentimento anti-Trujillista eram perseguidos, torturados e frequentemente assassinados da forma mais cruel possível, acabando entregues a voracidade de tubarões.

É um bom livro para reflectir sobre até onde vai a sede de poder de alguns seres humanos, confesso que nalguns momentos achei completamente arrepiante a descrição das turturas sofridas pelos assassinos de Trujillo, todos os pormenores, os cheiros, os sons são descritos de tal forma que parecemos ver e vivenciar os acontecimentos. É impressionante depois perceber como os assassinos do ditador e as suas respectivas famílias (inocentes) foram primeiro perseguidos, apontados e entregues pela própria população às forças dos Serviços Inteligentes, acabando a maioria por falecer devido às torturas; e depois de mortos, já durante a democratização do país, serem considerados heróis da Pátria...

Algo que achei também bastante interessante ao longo do livro é que o autor vai-nos dando as diferentes facetas e as perspectivas das personagens, aquilo que os move, as suas paixões, os seus dramas individuais...

Concluo referindo que mesmo tendo noção de que se trata de História ficcionada gostei bastante do livro e recomendo a todos que gostem de pensar.(less)

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Jul 28, 2011 Comelibros added it · review of another edition

Una novela enfocada en un hecho histórico, y que se vuelve a recordar gracias a la pluma de este gran escritor Mario Vargas Llosa. La novela gira en torno en el personaje de Urania una chica dominicana que se va a Estados Unidos y regresa en media madurez a tierra natal; Ya esta tierra no es la misma ni su gente y empieza a recordar la historia de ese delincuente que gobernó su país y todas sus moustrosidades de Rafael L. Trujillo un ser humano macabro. En la fiesta del chivo Urania, quedará mar...more

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May 17, 2011 Rebecca rated it 4 of 5 stars

For much of the book, not much actually happens. We know this is the fiction based on the assassination of Rafael Trujullo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic for 30 years. Yet, I find this an excellent book in how Vargas Llosa slowly makes layer after layer of the social/psychological oppression of living under a dictatorship, both for those who align themselves with Trujillo and those who decide to rebel. Fear is a constant companion, leading to inaction and self-censorship. There is a se...more

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Feb 21, 2011 Anna rated it 5 of 5 stars

Feast of the Goat is the fictionalized account of the assassination in 1961 of Rafael Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic. Told in third person omniscient narrator from several points of view including Trujillo himself from the morning he awakens to begin his day until he is gunned down later that evening. It is told from the point of view of other government officials close to the president, and it is told from the point of view of each of those who took part in the conspiracy as they...more

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