His hope of killing Trujillo and precipitating a coup fails when Roman is unable to bring himself to take over the military. The longest of these stories is that of José René “Pupo” Roman, the deposed secretary of the armed forces. In this section, Vargas Llosa additionally transitions to the metanarratives of Trujillo’s assassins as they wait to shoot him along a dark ocean highway. One such test causes the permanent dismissal of Urania’s father, who fails to reclaim his post despite his numerous pleas, attempts, and offers. He routinely tests his officials’ loyalty by marginalizing them with no explanation. Vargas Llosa describes Trujillo’s absolute control over the lives of his cabinet members and his demand for their constant loyalty. Amid these fragmented memories, Vargas Llosa intermingles the experiences of Agustín Cabral, General Trujillo himself, and the assassins implicated in the 1961 anti- Trujilla revolt. Much of what Urania recalls from her life as a young girl involves the politics of the time, although often indirectly. Upon her arrival in Santo Domingo, Urania appears fearful and agitated as she contemplates her return to her childhood house, yet she remains determined to confront her elderly and mute father, the deposed former president of Trujillo’s senate.Īs Urania speaks, first to her father and later to her aunt and cousins, Vargas Llosa uses her personal narrative as a vehicle for temporal shifts between present-day Santo Domingo and the oppression of Dominicans by the Trujillo regime during the early 1960s.
A successful lawyer in Manhattan, Urania lives estranged from her family and country however, she finds herself studying and reading about the Trujillo regime in her spare time. Vargas Llosa develops her history as a woman who escaped her Dominican past, only to become haunted and fascinated by it in adulthood. The novel begins in the present day with the return of Urania Cabral to Ciudad Trujillo (Santo Domingo) for the first time after a 35-year absence. The Feast of the Goat, the seminal work by Mario Vargas Llosa (1936– ), describes the end of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic.
Analysis of Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat
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