Mario Vargas Llosa ‘s & The Feast of the Goat

Peruvian Nobel Prize, Mario Vargas Llosa was

born in 1936 in the southern Peruvian provincial
city of Arequipa. He was the only child of Ernesto
Vargas Maldonado and Dora Llosa Ureta (the
former a radio operator in an aviation company,
the latter the daughter of an old criollo family),
who separated a few months before his birth.
Shortly after Mario's birth, his father revealed
that he was having an affair with a German
woman; consequently, Mario has two younger
half-brothers: Enrique and Ernesto Vargas.

Published 19 years ago, The Feast of the Goat narrated the

assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, and
what happened after that fact. It was the second story
Vargas Llosa wrote about a story set outside Peru, the first
was The War of the End of the World. It is also unusual
because it has a female protagonist.

Plot: The novel follows three storylines.

1. The first concerns a woman, Urania Cabral, who is
back in the Dominican Republic, after a long time, while
there to visit her sick she remembered incidents from her
youth and recounted a long-held secret to her aunt and cousins.
2. The second story line focuses on the last day in Trujillo's life from the
moment he woke up, and shows us the regime's inner circle, to which
Urania's father once belonged.
3. The third focuses on Trujillo's assassins, many of them had previously
been government loyalists, as they wait for his car late that night; after
the assassination, this story line shows us the assassins' persecution.
Each aspect of the book's plot reveals a different viewpoint on the
Dominican Republic's political and social environment, past and present.