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Article: Big Daddy: the dictator novel and the liberation of Latin America.(The Feast of the Goat)
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- August 1, 2002
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The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Liosa, translated by Edith Grossman, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 404 pages, $25
IN THOSE HEADY days in 1967 when Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his fellow writers of the Latin American literary "boom" regularly descended on Havana to attend Fidel's shrimp barbecues-in an age when Che still dashed about the globe on behalf of the Marxist millennium to come--two of "Gabo's" most illustrious companions, the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and his Mexican counterpart Carlos Fuentes, met in a London pub to hatch a grand literary enterprise. Together they projected an ambitious artistic project tentatively titled Los ...