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The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

von: Mario Vargas Llosa
10,99 €
Verlag:	Faber & Faber UK
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	16.08.2012
ISBN/EAN:	9780571268139
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	387

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Titelbeschreibung

Don Rigoberto - a rather grey insurance executive by day, a dedicated pornographer and sexual enthusiast by night - misses Lucrecia, his estranged second wife. He desperately compensates for her absence by filling his notebooks with a steamy mix of memory and sexual fantasy. Husband and wife have been separated for a year because of a sexual encounter between Rigoberto's pre-pubescent son Alfonso and his stepmother. Alfonso is a strange fey creature of angelic appearance and apparently diabolical impulses - more seducer than seduced despite his age. He visits Lucrecia's house without his father's knowledge and insists that he wants his parents to make up, having apparently forgotten the incident that caused the original break-up. Meanwhile, Rigoberto and Lucrecia are each receiving highly erotic letters which each believe to have been sent by the other but may well have been written by Alfonso. Add to all this the notebooks at the core of the novel and the reader is drawn into Don Rigoberto's own confusion between imagination and physical reality.
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is a funny, sexy, disquieting and very compelling novel that is one of Vargas Llosa's finest works.

Autorenportrait

With novels including
The War of the End of the World,
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter,
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto and
The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa has established an international reputation as one of the Latin America's most important authors.