Mario Vargas Llosa, current Literature Nobel Prize, immerses us in 'The Feast of the Goat 'in the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. Boasting a spectacular ability to combine the real and fictional, the Peruvian says this country's transition to democracy through a cross-fictional story with historical facts that really happened there.
novel is a slow and dense at first, by the appearance of many characters, if it is true that there are none on in the background to the story. Vargas Llosa tells the story of Urania, a woman who returns from exile to the old "Ciudad Trujillo (Santo Domingo), once the advent of democracy. There United States escaped with only 14 years since his return begins to remember the reasons which led it to drop everything and run away from dictatorship.
On the other hand, tells the parallel preparation of the attack that took the life of Trujillo, the current political situation, the appearances of politicians and loyal to the regime, the events following the death of dictator ... by a mixture between past and present tenses, and a hardness in the style and language, on the other hand, does nothing but portray the horror and lack of freedom of the years of the dictatorship ...
Urania. No had done a favor their parents, their name suggested a planet, a mineral, everything except the woman with fine features and slender, polished complexion and large dark eyes, a little sad, the mirror back at him. Urania! Go occurrence. Fortunately no one called her that, but Uri, Miss Campbell, Mrs. Campbell or Dr. Cabral. She remembered, since he left Santo Domingo ("Best said, of Ciudad Trujillo", when he left had not returned his name to the capital city), or Adrian, or Boston, or Washington DC, or New York, no one had come to call Urania, as before at home and in the Colegio Santo Domingo, where the sisters and their companions pronounced Quite right the crazy name inflicted upon him at birth. Do you happen to him, her? Later to find out, girl, your mother was in heaven and your father living dead. You'll never know. Urania! As absurd as a affront to the old Santo Domingo de Guzman called Ciudad Trujillo. Would his father also of the idea?
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