RaveGuardianIn The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa draws Trujillo as a Dickensian hyper-villain: incontinent, vituperative and capricious, governed by his decaying body. His regime is driven by uncontrollable emissions - outbursts of invective, uncalled-for urination and premature ejaculation - which dictate the dictator … Vargas Llosa throws himself passionately into the story. He weaves the novel around two unrelated events — Trujillo's attempt to have sex with Urania Cabral, the 14-year-old daughter of his Chief Minister, and his assassination two weeks later … The two plot-lines twist and turn around each other; woven on multiple time-frames they invoke a cast of thousands, but never stray far from the mesmerising figure of the Goat himself.