SOURCE: A review of Diary of the War of the Pig, in The New York Times Book Review, January 28, 1973, p. 34.

In the following review, Levin favorably comments on Diary of the War of the Pig.

[In Diary of the War of the Pig a senior citizen] of Buenos Aires, Isidro Vidal, realizes one day that his old friends are being massacred. One by one, the companions of his nightly card game are clubbed to death, shot, pitched off the bleachers of a football stadium, flung into bonfires. Nor is the slaughter restricted to Isidro's cafe cronies alone. An old peoples' home is bombed, and the elderly everywhere are waylaid.

What links the violence is that it is committed on the old by the young. The motive? Well you might ask. A physician in the novel explains that the young feel a neurotic "repulsion" toward the old. A youth...