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Summary: El retrato de un dictador.
Review: Es increíble como Vargas Llosa puede narrar unos sucesos que han ocurrido hace algunas décadas y que todavía tienen vigencia en la historia de muchos países latinoamericanos. Como siempre, la narrativa y técnica de Vargas Llosa son insuperables: construye historias paralelas, pero entrelazadas, que culminan con cargas abundantes de emoción. El dictador Trujillo y su asesor Abes pueden tranquilamente representar a muchos dictadores y autócratas que han requerido de un hombre de confianza sin escrúpulos para manejar todos los hilos del poder sin impunidad. Es importante leer este libro, no sólo por el contenido literario, ni histórico, sino para aprender una lección que los latinoamericanos no terminamos de entender: los excesos autoritarios y totalitarios nos conducen a lo peor.
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Summary: La fiesta del Chivo
Review: Vargas Llosa es excelente en describir al chivo y sus secuaces y hace vivir el clima que se vivia en la Republica Dominicana en esos tiempos, es la realidad que se vive en los circulos gubernamentales corruptos y el sentir del pueblo oprimido impotente por cambiar los esquemas dictatoriales, es el primer libro que leo de Vargas Llosa, pero realmente es un bellisimo libro y un gran escritor.Daiosy Beltran
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Summary: La Fiesta del Chivo
Review: Todo Dominicano que vivio durante la era de el General Trujillo sabe mejor lo que ocurrio en ese Pais durante 31 anos. Esta historia del General Trujillo, escrita por Luis Vargas Llosa, autor de la Ciudad y los Perros presenta una dramatica novela, mezclando la historia con la ficcion. Yo me quede "pegado" leyendo, pasando pagina tras pagina. Se que el lector que se siente a leer esta magna obra de Vargas Llosa quedara impresionado con los detalles que el autor plasma de este Monstruo a tono con la crudeza de la epoca. No sabia que Trujillo era enemigo de Munoz Marin o de Castro. Lo descubri en este libro. Este es un libro que acerrimos Trujillistas censuraran por su contenido. Invito a todos los Latinos (y no Latinos) a que lean sobre esta epoca oscura en la historia de Republica Dominicana.
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Summary: La fiesta del chivo es, a mi parecer, la mejor novela de MVL
Review: Excelente interpretación de una realidad histórica. La fiesta del chivo, no debe ser vista como un testamento fiel de unos hechos, ya que no es un libro de historia. Es una novela histórica, lo que significa que toma unos hechos particulares y a partir de ellos crea una ficción. Como dice el mismo Vargas Llosa, él se sirve de un hecho histórico para luego "mentir" sobre el mismo. Creo que ya llegó el momento de reconocer a Vargas Llosa otorgándole el Premio Nobel.
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Summary: Fantastic description of Dominican Republic era Trujillo
Review: My brother, who lives in Spain, recommended this book to me. I could not put it down. It describes realistically life in the Dominican Republic during the era of Trujillo. Never was I aware of the very dark side of this nation and the suffering and excesses which were taken by the Trujillo regime. A typical dictatorial way of life rather than the paternalistic benevolent attributes assigned to the 'benefactor' who was nothing but ruthless, cruel, and a violater of human rights and helpless and innocent young girls. Mario Vargas Llosa describes everything with enough detail and nuances to make you feel that you are there, living the horrors of Trujillo's dictatorship.
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Summary: Was very impressed!
Review: The story captured me from line one. It is one of the best and most thoughtprovoking books I have read in a long time, and will make me think twice next time I pick up a newspaper and read about a repressive government. What impressed me a lot about Mr. Vargas Llosa, is that he is a native Peruvian, but was still able to describe circumstances in a different time and country as almost only an insider could do...
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Summary: I hope he burns in hell
Review: I received this book as a gift recently and from the first sentence I couldn't stop reading it. It is the most profound study on human decadence and malice I have ever read. The horrible part of it, is that all happened, it was all true. Vargas Llosa has outdone himself in this book, "La Fiesta del Chivo" is one of the most important studies on misuse of power and dictatorial corruption that has ever been put in writing. My congratulations to the author and its publishers.
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Summary: Of Dictatorship and Machismo
Review: "La fiesta del Chivo" is a tour de force about dictatorial power in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo's regime, and how that power was centered on the concepts of machismo and its subsequent tyranny over women. This novel will take its place among the very best Latin American dictatorial novels.
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Summary: The book of the year in Spanish
Review: This book relates the wild corruption in Rep. Dominicana in the 50's under the ledaership of Gen. Leonidas Trujillo. The novel/essay describes the corruption ethical, political and economical of that regimen. But we can see that the book isn't focused only in the caribean country, the book describes the corruption of southamerica during the military governments in the 20th century (many of them supported by the US). The novel has 3 big threads (the conspiration, Urania's drama and Trujillo's life), and all of them are solid, the characters have their own personality and is expressed along the book. A must for Spanish readers ( and for Mrs Thatcher who has a similar friend in chile).
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Summary: A story that nobody wants back
Review: It's an interesting book about a very dark epoque for Dominican Republic, and as an foreigner you tend to weigh both the good and bad things, according to the reading. These maquiavelic guys who have surged from time to time, have had the power to hipnotize the majority of people, or simply buy their souls. A story that nobody wants to happen again
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