Jennifer Compton wrote:
> The Bridge Over The River Drina doesn't suck - but it is way too much
> for me. It describes horrors - the same sort of horrors that happened
> and still happen - and I know they happen, but in the book they got
> right under my skin and I simply couldn't read on.
I wish people would quite REMINDING me of stuff. Disgust and horror? I
give you Mario Vargas Llosa's *The Feast of the Goat*, a presumed
fiction about the last days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican
dictator. Included are his grotesque pedophilia, his assassination, and
the post-assassination revenges perpetrated by his two sons Ramfis and
Radames. The fact that Llosa turns Trujillo into something resembling a
fully rounded human being makes him even more appalling than his
political acts, which included the massacre of hundreds of Haitian refugees.
ken
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