Festas manchadas de sangue e violência: literatura e história em A Festa, de Ivan Ângelo e A Festa do Bode, de Mario Vargas Llosa

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the relation between literature and history in the novels The Celebration, by Ivan Ângelo (1976) and The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa (2000). The literary corpus of this research portrays the state of exception periods in two different countries: the civilian-military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985) and the dictatorship of the Trujillo Era (1930-1961) in the Dominican Republic, respectively. Stemming from the interconnection between literature and history, this research, supported by studies in comparative literature, attempts to understand how the literary representation of the dictatorship occurs (both the Brazilian civilianmilitary and the Dominican ones) and to investigate the metaphor of the concept of feast and celebration that permeates the narratives. The initial hypothesis is that the hidden meanings behind the sense of "feast" coincide, somehow, in both novels, because, in both texts, there are violence, blood and inequities covered by the appearance of a feast.