chivo Flashcards
ramfis nickname
feroz fornicador
end of chapter 11 why does trujillo want a fuck
para saber que no estoy muerto, que no estoy viejo
trujillo buys into the premise of Balaguer’s speech
‘eran los argumentos justificando aquella alianza lo que había sobrecogido a Trujillo como una aplastante verdad. No era facil sentir en sus hombros el peso de una mano supernatural’.
Balaguer theorises in an early speech that the Dominican Republic had until Trujillo’s leadership been saved directly by Divine Providence, but that God had since passed the baton on to Trujillo, what’s the speech called
Dios y Trujillo: una interpretación realista’
speculation that trujillistas seem to get kicks off being humiliated
Trujillo les sacó del fondo del alma una vocación masoquista
trujillo christlike allusion
‘Trujillo podía hacer que el agua se volviera vin o que los panes se multiplicaron’
regime motto
rectitud, libertad, trabajo y moralidad
why does trujillo retract a temporary suspicion of balaguer
no, si había uno entre todos los hombres del régimen, incapaz de verse envuelto en un complot, era el circunspecto Presidente. Sabía que sin Trujillo no existiría, que el Benefactor era la savia que le daba vida, que sin él se esfumaría de la política para siempre jamás’
how does trujillo ‘trataba siempre a las muchachas bellas’ según Manuel Alfonso
Él, tan severo en cuestiones militares y de gobierno, había convertido en filosofía el refrán: <a> </a>
parameters Vargas Llosa sets himself when writing Chivo (stated in interview
It’s a novel, not a history book, so I took many, many liberties. The only limitation I imposed on myself was that I was not going to invent anything that couldn’t have happened within the framework of life in the Dominican Republic.
in an interview with Dominic Moran Vargas Llosa states his purpose in writing the novel
to write a novel about a particular dictatorship and the effect which that dictatorship had on virtually every level of society and every aspect of social life. I wanted to show just how deeply that dictatorship had permeated life in the Dominican Republic over the course of its thirty-one years.
example of how Vargas Llosa employs cliff-hangers at the end of many chapters, which thanks to the alternating plot structure are never resolved until much later in the novel
chapter 7, of Urania and her father, ends on the unexpected ringing of the doorbell; ‘suena el timbre de la puerta del calle. Queda repicando, vibrando en la ardiente mañana’. The reader then must wait another three chapters to discover who is ringing the doorbell
example of diálogos cruzados in Chivo
Seamless changes between Urania beginning to explain to her family about her father’s decision, and the conversation between Cabral and Manuel that influenced this decision
what’s T’s greatest acheivement
2nd October, 1937: the massacre of the Haitians.
Antonio Imbert backstoryppnn0
a politician who becomes disillusioned with the barbarity of Trujillo’s regime - his first attempt at the murder of Trujillo was foiled by the unsuccessful attempt of the overthrow of Trujillo’s regime by Cuban paramilitary forces - realising the difficulty of his task, he joined the other conspirators in their attemp
