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Antologia tematica de cuentos espanoles y hispanoamericanos en torno al adulterio. Inluye Nuria Amat, Juan Jose Arreola, Pia Barros, Mario Benedetti, Elena Garro, Mempo Giardinelli, Antonio Munoz Molina, Juan Carlos Onetti, Sergio Pitol, Merce Rododera, et al ... Read more

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Title: Un millon de empleos: Àquimera, utopia o realidad que puede ser conquistada? La tarea de reconstruccion tras el reciente terremoto estimulara la ocupacion de mano de obra. Pero, en cualquier escenario, la anunciada meta de Sebastian Piòera solo podra cumplirse si se actua decididamente sobre las empresas de menor tamano.(ECONOMÎA)
Author: Sergio Molina Silva
Publication: Mensaje (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2010
Publisher: Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino
Volume: 59Issue: 587Page: 49(3)

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Title: Vargas Llosa entre cajas: siguiendo una larga tradición literaria, Mario Vargas Llosa ha dedicado una parte no menor de su producción al teatro, género en el que, como afirma en este repaso Vicente Molina Foix, ha condensado y cifrado algunas de sus obsesiones creativas.
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Nociones básicas de responsabilidad civil - La responsabilidad penal en el ejercicio de la actividad médica - Teoría de la acción - Teoría de la tipicidad - Teoría de la antijuricidad - Teoría de la culpabilidad - Anexo Jurisprudencial ... Read more

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Title: Air Quality in the Mexico megacity. An integrated assessment.(Reseña de libro)
Author: José Leal
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Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel, "La Fiesta del Chivo" (The Goat's Feast), recounts the story of General Trujillo's tyrannical dictatorship in the Dominican Republic during the 1960s and the life of a woman named Urania Cabral. Trujillo, nicknamed "El Chivo" (The Goat), nearly destroyed an entire country through his gruesome ways. Urania, having fled at a young age, promised to never return. Why does she return? Why has she remained afraid and lonely since the age of 14? Why hasn't love reached out to her? Can she confront the past in Santo Domingo and find the answers? ... Read more

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Two Thumps Up!
Amazing novel about the life and death of Leonidas Trujillo. I couldn't put the book down.

Brilliant
Urania, the daughter of one of Trujillo's cronies, returns to her native Santo Domingo after many years of absence.She holds a secret that had prevented her to visit her native country.Vargas Llosa narrates a short period of stagnation and corruption in the Dominican Republic. The Trujillista era is one of infamy and vileness, in which psychopaths and murderers offered the dictator their wives and daughters for orgies and sadistic acts of deflowering in exchange for political favors. Thus the tittle of Chivo--or goat--which denotes the sexual undertones of his parties. In his usual style, the book is undoubtedly more fiction than history, yet it is obvious that the author did ample research on the period. In spite of the repugnance readers may feel toward the fictional characters, Vargas Llosa does not make a direct judgment of this abominable time. The metaphor for the period is revealed when we learn Urania's secret of what happened at "La fiesta del Chivo."

Muy mala
Soy Dominicano pero no pienso en el libro como historia sino como novela me parecio mala para alguien que entienda la forma de hablar y pensar de los dominicanos no me toco en lo mas minimo la encontre vacia, no emotiva, increible, lo siento pero no es una novela es una junta de cosas casi historicas pero sin trama, sin pasion

Compelling, disturbing picture of a ruthless dictator and his downfall
Mario Vargas Llosa writes some of the most engaging and compelling prose I've encountered. In this novel, he interweaves several stories surrounding the life and death of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina (known as "the goat"), the dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until 1961. For the first half of the book, he alternates between three narratives. One is a day in the life of an aging Trujillo, still brutally controlling as he gradually loses control of his own body. The second tells the story of a group of revolutionaries who have plotted and prepared to assassinate Trujillo. And the third, the most engaging narrative, follows a middle-aged woman who has returned to the Dominican Republic after a several-decade absence to face her demons regarding a disturbing encounter involving her, her father, and the Goat.

Vargas Llosa's characters are compelling and well developed (in some of the assassins' back stories, I felt they were a little too well developed). The author powerfully captures the spirit of this repressive period, the inner workings of the regime, and the bitterness that followed its fall. The first half is engaging, but the second half really takes off, building to multiple (disturbing) climaxes. This book is not for the faint of heart: in the latter half, I encountered three hauntingly graphic scenes, two of torture and one of a sexual assault. (I'm glad that I read the novel in Spanish; it helped dampen the explicitness.) And yet, these atrocities aren't gratuitous inclusions: from my limited knowledge, they reflect true aspects of a terrible regime and of some of the horrors that go on in parts of today's world.

Another marvelous (but easier and not disturbing) piece of historical fiction regarding this time and place is Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies, which tells the story of three freedom fighters and sisters under the Trujillo regime. Also, the Complete Review offers passages from (and links to) several insightful professional reviews of the English translation of La Fiesta del Chivo. I recommend the passages, but don't read the full reviews until after you read the book: several of them include significant spoilers (www.complete-review.com/reviews/vargas/fiestac.htm).

Buenisimo
Simplemente una de las mejores obras que he leído en mi vida. Mi conocimiento de la historia de la Republica Dominicana es muy basica, mas eso no fue obstaculo para vivir y sentir esta gran obra. Fabuloso. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on December 4, 1997. The length of the article is 1518 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El burlador de Tirso. (Monterrey, México)(TT: The Don Juan of Tirso) (TA: Monterrey, Mexico)
Author: Mario Saavedra
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: December 4, 1997
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: v44Issue: n2320Page: p78(2)

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