The goat festival

The goat festival ( Spanish original title: La fiesta del chivo ) is a novel published in 2000 by the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa . The work was published in 2001 by Suhrkamp Verlag in a translation by Elke Wehr and received mostly positive reviews.

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

The novel is divided into three storylines, which are intertwined and illuminate the Trujillo regime from different perspectives: 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 left her homeland shortly before Trujillo's murder and fled into exile in the USA. 35 years later, she returns to the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo , and visits her father, who was one of Trujillo's closest confidants. Her memories lead back to the years of the violent and corrupt dictatorship, to the year 1961, when the assassination attempt on Trujillo and the cruel torture of the arrested conspirators took place.

The fates of the people 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, incorporating fictional elements in order to create a more convincing story.

filming

The Goat Festival was filmed in 2005 . The director was the cousin of the writer Luis Llosa.

literature

The goat festival. Novel. Translated from the Spanish by Elke Wehr . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2001 ISBN 3518412329

Web links

Book reviews at Perlentaucher.de Retrieved on May 1, 2012.
I am a liberal democrat - Mario Vargas Llosa on his novel The Goat Festival , the Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and his political preferences in Europe , broadcast in "Treffpunkt Kultur", ORF, June 2001. Retrieved on May 1, 2012.

Individual evidence

↑ Das Fest des Ziegenbock , critic.de, November 6, 2006. Retrieved on May 1, 2012

[1] Das Fest des Ziegenbock , critic.de, November 6, 2006. Retrieved on May 1, 2012


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