Modelization Looking for Incarnation

The Feast of the Goat in Light of Strategy of Conflict

Abstract

This paper mobilizes Thomas Schelling’s theoretical elaborations to study the story that Mario Vargas Llosa gives, in his novel The Feast of the Goat, of the coup d’Etat attempt that ended on May 30^th 1961 Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship in Dominican Republic. Stakes and notions such as “focal point”, “critical mass”, “tactical interdependence” and “negotiation” find a sensible incarnation in the novel, which leads to reflection about the relations between the language games of economics and literature.