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Details... David Wong Louie, Writer - Marfa, Winter 2004

 

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Mario Llosa
"The Feast of the Goat"
January 24, 2002

In this brilliant novel about the Trujillo regime, the Dominican Republic stands for all tyrannized nations and the 1960’s stand for any period of political domination and unrest. In this conversation, we explore the use of fact in novel-writing, in particular the facts of South American dictatorships’ uses of torture and coercion. In his quest for the dark true memoryof violation, Vargas Llosa rejects the myth-making of a Garcia Marquez.


The Feast of the Goat


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