The Feast Of The Goat
(Mario Vargar Llosa)
The dictator novel is not new to Latin America. Yet while established authors of the genre typify their writing by drawing on myth and allegory, in The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargar Llosa draws readers down to the street level of conspirators, the dinner table of victims, and into the stained trousers of Rafael Trujillo to explore the last day of the dictator's thirty-one year tyrannical rule of the Dominican Republic.
The novel unravels three interweaving storylines. Urania's story represents the Dominican Republic's political relationship to the rest of the post Cold-War world, but also depicts the collective memory of Dominican citizens, of their suffering, and also of their blind faith and complicity in the regime that compromised them so. The second plotline is that of the conspirators, the once upon a time Trujillo loyalists. Finally there is Trujillo himself. Obsessed with cleanliness as much as the bladder problem that challenges the discipline of his public persona, even Trujillo is a character that suffers from compromise. Llosaonce claimed that in writing about one dictator he writes about all dictators. But painstaking research spent on Dominican streets interviewing real people for this novel make it a tense and unnerving read; bringing human psychology into the genre of the dictator.
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