The Feast of the Goat

The Feast of the Goat (Spanish Original title: La fiesta del chivo ) is a 2000 published novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. The work was published in 2001 by Suhrkamp Verlag in a translation by Elke defense and got mostly positive reviews.

Content

The work revolves around the figure of the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Dominican, also known as " goat ", which was formed in 1961 after 31 years of authoritarian rule shot in an assassination attempt.

The novel is divided into three storylines, which intertwine with each other and the regime of Trujillo from different perspectives illuminate: from the perspective of the victim Urania Cabral, from the perspective of the cruel dictator and from the perspective of his assassin. The Dominican Urania Cabral had left their home country shortly before the assassination of Trujillo and had fled into exile in the United States. 35 years later, she returns to the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo and attends her father, who had joined the group of Trujillo's closest confidants. Your Memories take you back to the years of violent and corrupt dictatorship, in the year 1961, when the assassination of Trujillo and the cruel torture of arrested conspirators occurred.

The fate of the persons described in the novel offer deep insights into the physical and psychological conditions of a dictatorial regime and its consequences. Vargas Llosa's dictator novel has an authentic historical background, which he included with fictional elements in favor of a more compelling story.

Filming

The Feast of the Goat was filmed in 2005. Directed by Luis Llosa 's cousin of the writer.