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Enrique Lafourcade

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Description:King Ahab's Feast, Enrique Lafourcade's third novel and the first to be translated into English, typifies a new kind of writing emerging from South America today [1963]. Fast, sardonic, and unflinchingly honest, it is a devastating portrait of the archetypal strongman and of the society and forces, both internal and foreign, on which such a man is nurtured and sustained.César Alejandro Carrillo Acab had ruled his tropical island kingdom ruthlessly for thirty years. But, once a year, out of his bountiful generosity, he shared his birthday with the People. Parades, luncheons, fireworks, banquets, dances, receptions, and executions - these were the highlights of the 24-hour feast. From the reviewing stand, at the start of this day of glory, El Dispensador smiled urbanely on the crowds, but, when again in the privacy of his own rooms, he trembled. With good reason he feared one particular birthday present: the assassin's bullet.Hour by hour, tension mounts. The young revolutionaries feverishly review their plans for an overthrow. Ranged around the vulnerable Carillo are his loving family and loyal friends, all inwardly lusting for personal power: his foreign wife, Jessie, beautiful and bloodthirsty; his seductive sixteen-year-old daughter, Delfina; André a fat and fabulously wealthy ambassador and woman chaser; von Kelsen, the renegade Austrian police chief; Cecil T. Raven, the rapacious but cautious U.S. Chief of Mission; and General Josefat who had first known Carrillo when he was a fainthearted schoolboy called "Chicky." Caught in a trap of his own making, the tired, frightened dictator runs to the only person he can trust: his eight-year-old son, Carlitos.From this welter of depravity, cynicism, and cruelty the modern tyrant par excellence is drawn in bold outline. Always allowing his characters and their actions to speak for themselves, Enrique Lafourcade has given his readers a vivid dramatization of the truth that "absolute power corrupts absolutely."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with La Fiesta del Rey Acab. To get started finding La Fiesta del Rey Acab, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 259

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Ediciones de Lafourcade

Release: 1982

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Description: King Ahab's Feast, Enrique Lafourcade's third novel and the first to be translated into English, typifies a new kind of writing emerging from South America today [1963]. Fast, sardonic, and unflinchingly honest, it is a devastating portrait of the archetypal strongman and of the society and forces, both internal and foreign, on which such a man is nurtured and sustained.César Alejandro Carrillo Acab had ruled his tropical island kingdom ruthlessly for thirty years. But, once a year, out of his bountiful generosity, he shared his birthday with the People. Parades, luncheons, fireworks, banquets, dances, receptions, and executions - these were the highlights of the 24-hour feast. From the reviewing stand, at the start of this day of glory, El Dispensador smiled urbanely on the crowds, but, when again in the privacy of his own rooms, he trembled. With good reason he feared one particular birthday present: the assassin's bullet.Hour by hour, tension mounts. The young revolutionaries feverishly review their plans for an overthrow. Ranged around the vulnerable Carillo are his loving family and loyal friends, all inwardly lusting for personal power: his foreign wife, Jessie, beautiful and bloodthirsty; his seductive sixteen-year-old daughter, Delfina; André a fat and fabulously wealthy ambassador and woman chaser; von Kelsen, the renegade Austrian police chief; Cecil T. Raven, the rapacious but cautious U.S. Chief of Mission; and General Josefat who had first known Carrillo when he was a fainthearted schoolboy called "Chicky." Caught in a trap of his own making, the tired, frightened dictator runs to the only person he can trust: his eight-year-old son, Carlitos.From this welter of depravity, cynicism, and cruelty the modern tyrant par excellence is drawn in bold outline. Always allowing his characters and their actions to speak for themselves, Enrique Lafourcade has given his readers a vivid dramatization of the truth that "absolute power corrupts absolutely."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with La Fiesta del Rey Acab. To get started finding La Fiesta del Rey Acab, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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