Vargas Llosa, Mario  (1936-) <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/> Original title: Cuadernos de don Rigoberto. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780374223274 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Man-woman relationships----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS FIC VAR