![]() ![]() ![]() Kennedy, and the particular obsessions of Don DeLillo, make this a very different book from Vargas Llosa’s telling of the killing of Rafael Trujillo.Īccording to DeLillo (through his stand-in character, Nicholas Branch),”the conspiracy against the President was a rambling affair that succeeded in the short term due mainly to chance.” Many people with different motives were out to get Kennedy from right-wing Aryan-nation types to non-ideological drifters desperate to leave a mark on history but (in this version) the most systematic pursuers were people who blamed him for the “loss” of Cuba and thought that his elimination would help them get that country back. But the more mysterious circumstances of the assassination of John F. Like La Fiesta del Chivo, Libra is a chillingly realistic novel that re-imagines and reconstructs a famous magnicide. Reviewed by: Geoffrey Fox Date: 20 January 2003ĭeLillo, Don. ![]()
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