Reader’s Guide to The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Voyage Out Book Group’s Reader’s Guide to The Feast of the Goat                  by Mario Vargas Llosa

 Book Information:

 The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (Translated by Edith Grossman)

Picador

416 pages

0312420277

The Literature of Latin America

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The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, whose deeply political work vividly examines the perils of power and corruption in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Upon announcing the award, the Swedish Academy praised Mr. Vargas Llosa “for his cartography of the structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat.”

Mr. Vargas Llosa, 74, is one of the most celebrated writers of the Spanish-speaking world, an anti-totalitarian intellectual whose work covers the range of human experience, whether it is ideology or eros. He is…