THE FEAST OF THE GOAT By Mario Vargas Llosa Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman Farrar Straus Giroux. 404 pp. $25 Like many other prominent Latin American writers of fiction and poetry, Mario Vargas Llosa is almost as deeply...

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, tr. Edith Grossman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 432 pp., $25.00. Full of the tremendous power of the Latin American epic, Vargas Llosa once again delivers a sweeping statement about the turbulent history of Latin...

With one right hook, an epochal friendship was destroyed and a rift opened between two of Latin America's most celebrated authors.At a 1976 movie premiere in Mexico City, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa _ with no apparent provocation _ landed a punch to the left...

With one right hook, an epochal friendship was destroyed and a rift opened between two of Latin America's most celebrated authors.At a 1976 movie premiere in Mexico City, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa _ with no apparent provocation _ landed a punch to the left...

In the following essay, Schwartz takes issue with the recurring “scenes of mayhem, murder, rape, and mutilation” in Vargas Llosa's novels, particularly The Feast of the Goat.

In the following review, Hensher praises The Feast of the Goat as a “ugly, mesmerising, masterly novel” and comments that Vargas Llosa should be nominated for a Nobel Prize.

In the following review, Bell-Villada asserts that The Feast of the Goat, Vargas Llosa's chronicle of the tyrannical reign of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo as leader of the Dominican Republic, “will most surely become the book about the long Trujillo nightmare and the ongoing, sordid aftermath.”