Article: La fiesta del Chivo.(Review)

Mario Vargas Llosa. La fiesta del Chivo. Mexico City. Alfaguara. 2000. 518 pages. ISBN 968-X9-0699-3.

The publication of still another high-quality novel in the postrevolutionary era (1989-) may encourage some cultural-studies devotees to reconsider their hostility toward "elite literature." Along with Carlos Fuentes, Abel Posse, Sergio Ramirez, Julio Escoto, and many others who have published outstanding works in the past decade, Mario Vargas Llosa has, with his latest effort, written a fascinating, well-documented novel based on Latin American history. Unlike Carpentier's Recurso del metodo Garcia Marquez's Otono del patriarca, and several other novels that ...

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