Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaLa última fiesta del Faraón
This essay analyses the Fiesta del Chivo (The fiesta of the Goat) in the light of other historical narrations of the Trujillo Period and LatinamericasÕ strong-arm men. It also reads the novel in the context of Vargas LlosaÕs own narrative traits as he re-reads history, in this case, achieving a nota...
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Universidad de Quintana Roo
2001
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| Acceso en línea: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=12801206 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/84954 |
| Sumario: | This essay analyses the Fiesta del Chivo (The fiesta of the Goat) in the light of other historical narrations of the Trujillo Period and LatinamericasÕ strong-arm men. It also reads the novel in the context of Vargas LlosaÕs own narrative traits as he re-reads history, in this case, achieving a notable parity between his own imaginative spirit and documental accuracy. This novel, that relates the last years of the dictatorship of the Dominican general Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1930-1961), reveals a hybrid quality, half historical novel and fictional journalism, and half kitsch melodrama, and together with La utop’a arcaica, has become a cultural phenomena, almost converting itself in another episode of the same historical fable that it sets out to tell; but one that should not be read as a blind story about the impossibility of culture and democratic civilization in a Latin America diseased with voluntary servitude and dependent, in the political and cultural spheres, on dictators, caudillos, drug barons, despots and tyrants. |
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