La última fiesta del Faraón

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Auteur principal: Adolfo Castañón
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Publié: Universidad Autónoma Del Estado De Quintana Roo 2001
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contents La última fiesta del Faraón Adolfo Castañón Estudios Culturales dictator historical novel Dominican Republic Rafael Leonidas Trujillo: Mario Vargas Llosa This essay analyses the Fiesta del Chivo (The fiesta of the Goat) in thelight of other historical narrations of the Trujillo Period and LatinamericasÕstrong-arm men. It also reads the novel in the context of Vargas LlosaÕsown narrative traits as he re-reads history, in this case, achieving a notableparity between his own imaginative spirit and documental accuracy.This novel, that relates the last years of the dictatorship of the Dominicangeneral Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1930-1961), reveals a hybrid quality,half historical novel and fictional journalism, and half kitsch melodrama,and together with La utop’a arcaica, has become a cultural phenomena,almost converting itself in another episode of the same historical fablethat it sets out to tell; but one that should not be read as a blind storyabout the impossibility of culture and democratic civilization in a LatinAmerica diseased with voluntary servitude and dependent, in the politicaland cultural spheres, on dictators, caudillos, drug barons, despots and tyrants. 2001 otro 1405-2962 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=12801206 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=128 Revista Mexicana del Caribe application/pdf Universidad Autónoma Del Estado De Quintana Roo Revista Mexicana del Caribe (México) Num.12 Vol.VI
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spellingShingle La última fiesta del Faraón
Adolfo Castañón
Estudios Culturales
dictator
historical novel
Dominican Republic
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo: Mario Vargas Llosa
La última fiesta del Faraón Adolfo Castañón Estudios Culturales dictator historical novel Dominican Republic Rafael Leonidas Trujillo: Mario Vargas Llosa This essay analyses the Fiesta del Chivo (The fiesta of the Goat) in thelight of other historical narrations of the Trujillo Period and LatinamericasÕstrong-arm men. It also reads the novel in the context of Vargas LlosaÕsown narrative traits as he re-reads history, in this case, achieving a notableparity between his own imaginative spirit and documental accuracy.This novel, that relates the last years of the dictatorship of the Dominicangeneral Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1930-1961), reveals a hybrid quality,half historical novel and fictional journalism, and half kitsch melodrama,and together with La utop’a arcaica, has become a cultural phenomena,almost converting itself in another episode of the same historical fablethat it sets out to tell; but one that should not be read as a blind storyabout the impossibility of culture and democratic civilization in a LatinAmerica diseased with voluntary servitude and dependent, in the politicaland cultural spheres, on dictators, caudillos, drug barons, despots and tyrants. 2001 otro 1405-2962 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=12801206 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=128 Revista Mexicana del Caribe application/pdf Universidad Autónoma Del Estado De Quintana Roo Revista Mexicana del Caribe (México) Num.12 Vol.VI
title La última fiesta del Faraón
topic Estudios Culturales
dictator
historical novel
Dominican Republic
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo: Mario Vargas Llosa
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=12801206