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	The Feast of the Goat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Feast of the Goat (Spanish title: La Fiesta del Chivo) (1996) is a novel by the Peruvian novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa.
		The first story is that of the present-day return of Urania, the daughter of a disgraced crony of Trujillo to the city of her birth, Santo Domingo.
		Some of the tortures described in The Feast of the Goat are horrific to the point of incrediblity; nevertheless, the writer insists that he had to tone down descriptions of some of the procedures used in the La Cuarenta prison in order to make them more believable, which is not to say more palatable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Feast_of_the_Goat (643 words)

	041131 Goat Goes Mainstream
		He said that as the demand for goat meat has increased, he has noticed that the customers looking for goat steaks and chops are not just those who have brought their tastes with them from abroad.
		Goat and lamb meat often are at the center of the celebration.
		As the demand for goat meat has increased in the last dozen years, so too has the number of goat farmers in the region, particularly in areas where dairy farms are disappearing and housing developments are taking their place.
	www.spcnetwork.com /mii/2004/041131.htm (1303 words)

	Bookslut \| The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas-Llosa
		It’s not surprising then that with the mesmerizing, if messy Feast of the Goat, a major spoke in the rich wheel of the Latin American ‘60s “Boom” generation, prolific Peruvian novelist and essayist Mario Vargas-Llosa has written his fictional history of the final days of a tyrannical regime, and its lasting effect on one woman.
		To do this he constructs The Feast of the Goat on a three-tiered narrative: the story of the last days of Trujillo and his regime, the assassination attempt and the lives of those involved in the plot, and the story of a woman.
		One gets the sense that Vargas-Llosa wanted The Feast of the Goat to be a wake-up call for the world to understand the machinations of how dictators come to power and the sometimes inconceivable reasons why people follow them.
	www.bookslut.com /fiction/2004_02_001504.php (1273 words)

	dvd-uk The Feast of the Goat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		To me, The Feast of the Goat felt like a great novel, with an extremely lengthy, arguably superfluous and somewhat tiresome prologue, which was not improved by its huge number of characters, with many of them confusingly having both a proper name and a nickname.
		If I were to venture a minor criticism, it is that in concentrating almost exclusively on the impact of the regime on the political elite of the time and their families, I still have little insight into the lives of ordinary people or culture in the Dominican Republic.
		Nevertheless, this is an extremely satisfying feast of a novel with great drama, suspense, emotion and historical accuracy, offering perceptive insights into the character make-up of tyrants and issues facing those living under them: a subject that regrettably retains relevancy half a century on.
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	Commonweal: Thirty-One Years Of Solitude. - The Feast of the Goat - book review
		The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa Translated by Edith Grossman Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25, 409 pp.
		The Goat" was one of the popular, clandestine nicknames of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the grotesque generalissimo who skillfully combined humiliation and terror, bribery and blood in tyrannizing the Dominican Republic from 1930 until 1961, when he was finally assassinated by a cadre of young army officers (with some U.S. help).
		The Feast of the Goat will most surely become the book about the long Trujillo nightmare and the ongoing, sordid aftermath.
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	The Feast of the Goat Book at Shop Ireland
		The Feast of the Goat by: Mario Vargas Llosa
		But Mario Vargas Llosa's 'Feast of the Goat' is a truly astonishing accomplishment from a very multi-talented and controversial figure.
		Before I read Feast of Goat, I would have said that Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude was the benchmark of South American literature, and it remains one of the greatest novels of the 20th Century.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0312420277/2 (1056 words)

	The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
		The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
		The Feast of the Goat is a novel, but it centers around the real-life figure of Rafael Trujillo, the dictator who (mis)ruled the Dominican Republic for over three decades before being assassinated in 1961.
		Curiously, in The Feast of the Goat Vargas Llosa does the factual parts very well; it is the fiction that falls a bit short, with the invented characters two dimensional compared to the historical figures he also incorporates.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/vargas/fiestac.htm (2952 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Book Review: The Final Days Of A Tyrant -- A Fictional Recount of the End of the Trujillo Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
		In his enthralling novel The Feast of the Goat, Vargas Llosa embarks on a fictional reconstruction of the final days of an egotistical general who exercised an inordinate amount of power over the people who surrounded him.
		He began collecting details about the times, the rise and fall of the dictator, and the lives of both ordinary people and rotagonists, such as the conspirators who killed the dictator., a controversial technique that sparked criticism in the Dominican Republic when the novel was first issued.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2002/vol6n08/BookReview-en.shtml (766 words)

	LRB \| Michael Wood : Memories of a Skinny Girl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa trans.
		The Feast of the Goat concentrates on the last day of the life of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, long-term dictator of the Dominican Republic, and on the aftermath of his assassination on 30 May 1961.
		In The Feast of the Goat it is one of the conspirators who speaks of 'the spell that had kept so many Dominicans devoted, body and soul, to Trujillo'.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v24/n09/wood01_.html (2722 words)

	The Feast of the Goat and Speer
		Trujillo, popularly known as the Goat, ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961.
		In The Feast of the Goat, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa presents a portrait of the tyrant as an old man, though not even a failing prostate has dampened his appetites.
		The first, which is the only part of the book that is wholly invented, deals with the return of Urania Cabral to the Dominican Republic in the mid-1990s.
	www.goodreports.net /reviews/thefeastofthegoat.htm (919 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Sexual terror and leaking trousers
		In The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa draws Trujillo as a Dickensian hyper-villain: incontinent, vituperative and capricious, governed by his decaying body.
		Urania is appalled by the Goat's advances - under her terrified gaze he becomes impotent and furious and punishes her by deflowering her with his fingers.
		The complex orbital structure, the relentless savagery, the psychotic grotesquerie - The Feast of the Goat is as dark and complicated as a Jacobean revenge tragedy; but it is also rich and humane.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,680003,00.html (625 words)

	Fiesta del Chivo/Feast of the Goat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In The Feast of the Goat, Vargas Llosa shows off his ability as a storyteller by narrating through Urania - daughter of the "Brainbox", Senator Agustín Cabral – the cruel history of Generalísimo and Benefactor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina.
		The Feast of the Goat is no fairy tale, but a crude procession of conspiracies, hatreds, assassinations and outrages that the cinematic style of Vargas Llosa helps us to digest without vomiting.
		The Goat is also portrayed as furious at his ungrateful country for not thanking him for steering it towards progress over 30 years.
	www.latamrob.com /reviews/llosaspan0410.html (1706 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Feast of the Goat: A Novel
		Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic -- and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million.
		In The Feast of the Goat Vargas Llosa unflinchingly tells the story of a regime's final days and the unsteady efforts of the men who would replace it.
		In The Feast of the Goat, Vargas Llosa weighs the burden of a corrupt and corruptive regime upon the people who live beneath it.
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	The Modern Word - "The Feast of the Goat" Review
		To make matters worse, in January 1960 the country’s Catholic bishops, previously staunch allies of the regime, inaugurated a long-running campaign of dissent by having a Pastoral letter read in every parish of the strongly Catholic country.
		Although her struggle in facing the demons of her past provides an additional narrative window into that turbulent time, her psychologically-centered story is both less credible and less compelling than the portraits of power framed by the rest of the book.
		There is a mythic quality to these characters and their actions that upstages the story of Urania, bestowing a sense of relevance to an otherwise tangled and tragic reality.
	www.libyrinth.com /reviews/feastofthegoat.html (1897 words)

	The Feast of the Goat: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million.
		The Feast of the Goat is a superb political novel.
		Aside from being one of the finest studies of power ever written (it ranks with ancients like Tacitus and moderns like Caro), The Feast of the Goat is a novel crafted to perfection.
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	honestdog critical \| books
		The Feast of the Goat/La fiesta del chivo is no different, as the narrative also tells us about Trujillo's final few days from the point of view of Trujillo himself, his major allies, his enemies, and the men that actually assassinated him on 30 May 1961.
		Concentration is therefore required to read The Feast of the Goat, but Vargas is constantly helpful, often reminding us of who different characters are and of several of the salient facts that affect the plot.
		Trujillo himself is called, among other things, the Goat, the Man, the Generalisimo,his Excellency, the Boss, the Patriarch of the New Fatherland, the Benefactor, the Restorer of Financial Independence.
	users.eggconnect.net /ctlsmith1/honestdog/april2002/books.html (3121 words)

	The Feast of the Goat
		In “The Feast of the Goat: A Novel,” by Mario Vargas Llosa, we are introduced to forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral.
		Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, Urania returns to her native Dominican Republic and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City, and one old man terrorized a nation of three million.
		In this magisterial and long-awaited novel, Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the terrible birth of a democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and to the victims, both innocent and complicit, who were drawn into his deadly orbit.
	www.amerispan.com /travel/Article_Detail.asp?Article_ID=80 (165 words)

	Reason: Big Daddy: the dictator novel and the liberation of Latin America. - The Feast of the Goat - book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The most recent novel by the 66-year-old Vargas Llosa is The Feast of the Goat (La Fiesta del Chivo), which was published in Spanish in 2000 and in an admirable English translation by Edith Grossman in 2001.
		Indeed, one of the constant themes running through the Latin American dictator novel, a theme that received special prominence during the literary "boom" of the 1960s and 70s, was the interdependence of the Latin American tyrant and Yankee imperialism.
		While more sympathetic than other Latin American novels to the (all too often unrealized) liberationist potential of the United States as a home of liberal democratic principles, institutions, and practices, The Feast of the Goat proves no exception.
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	The Feast of the Goat: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa Edith Grossman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Feast of the Goat: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa Edith Grossman
		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.
		Llosa has them all skillfully outmaneuvered by the puppet-president Joaquín Belaguer, a former poet who is the very antithesis of the machismo Goat.
	www.internetcross.com /item/0312420277 (802 words)

	'The Feast of the Goat': Vargas Llosa's Demon
		''The Feast of the Goat'' takes its title from the nickname for Gen. Rafael Trujillo, the dictator whose 30-year reign of terror in the Dominican Republic ended with his assassination in 1961.
		Trained by the Marines, and long an anti-Communist client of the American government, Trujillo became, in the last years of his life, an isolated pariah beneath the palms, harassed by bad press and economic sanctions.
		The scariest is Col. Johnny Abbes Garcia, the Goat's intelligence chief, who dabbles in Rosicrucian hocus-pocus and claims to be able to read his victims' auras even as he burns them with lighted cigarettes and jolts them with voltage from an electric chair.
	www.guyanaundersiege.com /Literature/Feast%20of%20the%20Goat.htm (1308 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas LLosa
		Then the Goat's climax is reached and the aftermath laid out for the reader, for whom the final horrors are no more surprising than they are to the participants, inured to such events.
		The Feast of the Goat is not an easy read, but it is brilliantly written and compelling.
		During her musings, Urania wonders if Dominicans 'had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth.' Indeed, books like this must be read so that horror does not become myth.
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=111 (496 words)

	Mario Vargas Llosa,Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat Reviews and Prices in Fiction at Review Centre
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		The War Of The End Of The World '81; The Storyteller '87; A Fish In The Water '93; Death In The Andes '93; The NotebooksRigoberto '97; TheFeast Of TheGoat 2000.
		Goat] is In the Time of the Butterfliestold from the outsider's perspective of the June 14thcoalition, one of the undergoundworking against the Trujillo government - and the one that the Mirabal sisterscertain that the two togetherTheFeast of theGoat by MarioVargasLlosa reviewed
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	The Feast of the Goat -- Maria Vargas-Llosa Edith Grossman
		The Feast of the Goat -- Maria Vargas-Llosa Edith Grossman
		In The Feast of the Goat Vargas Llosa tells the story of a regime's final days and the unsteady efforts of the men who would replace it.
		His narrative moves between the rituals of the hated dictator, Rafael Trujillo, in his daily routine, and the laying-in-wait of the assasins who will kill him; their initial triumph; and the shock of fear's release--and replacements.
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	Feast of the Goat,The, English, Best Seller - Fiction, Book of the Week, Literature, Printed Matter
		"This wasn't an enemy he could defeat like the hundreds, the thousands he had confronted and conquered over the years, buying them, intimidating them, killing them." So thinks Rafael Trujillo, "the Goat," dictator of the Dominican Republic, on the morning of May 30, 1961 a day that will end in his assassination.
		The "enemy" is old age at 70, Trujillo, who has always prided himself on his grooming and discipline, is shaken by bouts of incontinence and impotence.
		Gathering power as it rolls along, this massive, swift-moving fictional take on a grim period in Dominican history shows that Vargas Llosa is still one of the world's premier political novelists.
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	THE FEAST OF THE GOAT; THE FEAST OF THE GOAT - Reviewscout.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		THE FEAST OF THE GOAT; THE FEAST OF THE GOAT
		Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape.
		In 'The Feast of the Goat', Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo's reign, as Mario Vargas Llosa eloquently explores the effects of power and violence on the lives of both the oppressors and those they victimised.
	www.reviewscout.co.uk /0571207715 (281 words)

	Feast of the Goat, a CurtainUp review
		The Feast of the Goat (La Fiesta del Chivo)
		Such patrons are treated to headphones with dynamic, well-timed piped-in English translations that actually are spoken by voices with good acting instincts.
		Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat has been given a sparkling and stirring production, filled with humanity, compassion, and humor.
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	Amazon.co.uk: The Feast of the Goat: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Buy The Feast of the Goat with Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood a...
		La Fiesta del Chivo / The Feast of the Goat (Punto de Lectura); Paperback ~ Mario Vargas Llosa
		'The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America's twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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