The notebooks of Don Rigoberto
Vargas Llosa, Mario (1936-)
The notebooks of Don Rigoberto / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Edith Grossman - 1st American ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1998 , c1997. - 259 p. ; 24 cm.
Original title: Cuadernos de don Rigoberto.
Set in Lima, the novel tells of a love triangle whose participants may be the fictional creations of Don Rigoberto: Rigoberto himself, by day a gray insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast; his second wife, Lucrecia; and his young son, Alfonso. Husband and wife are estranged because of a sexual encounter between Lucrecia and the boy, a fey, angelic creature who may have seduced her (rather than the other way around). Missing Lucrecia terribly, Rigoberto fills his notebooks with memories, fantasies, and unsent letters; meanwhile, the boy visits Lucrecia, determined to regain her favor and win her love. Together, father and son persuade her to enact a series of tableaux vivants based on works by Egon Schiele and other painters.
9780374223274
Man-woman relationships----Fiction
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The notebooks of Don Rigoberto / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Edith Grossman - 1st American ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1998 , c1997. - 259 p. ; 24 cm.
Original title: Cuadernos de don Rigoberto.
Set in Lima, the novel tells of a love triangle whose participants may be the fictional creations of Don Rigoberto: Rigoberto himself, by day a gray insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast; his second wife, Lucrecia; and his young son, Alfonso. Husband and wife are estranged because of a sexual encounter between Lucrecia and the boy, a fey, angelic creature who may have seduced her (rather than the other way around). Missing Lucrecia terribly, Rigoberto fills his notebooks with memories, fantasies, and unsent letters; meanwhile, the boy visits Lucrecia, determined to regain her favor and win her love. Together, father and son persuade her to enact a series of tableaux vivants based on works by Egon Schiele and other painters.
9780374223274
Man-woman relationships----Fiction
LAS FIC VAR
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