The Dictator's Dotage

December 17, 2001 · Steve Lenzner, Magazine, Books and Arts

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 432 pp., $25 MARIO VARGAS LLOSA'S "The Feast of the Goat" portrays in stark terms the thirty-one-year reign over the Dominican Republic by General Rafael Trujillo, the man known as the Goat. In alternating chapters, the novel…