description: Don Rigoberto - by day a grey insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast - misses Lucrecia, his estranged second wife. The pair separated following a sexual encounter between Lucrecia and Alfonso, Rigoberto's son. To compensate for her absence, Rigoberto fills his notebooks with memories, fantasies and unsent letters. Meanwhile, Alfonso visits Lucrecia, determined to win her love.In The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto , Mario Vargas Llosa keeps the reader guessing which episodes are real and which issue from Rigoberto's imagination. The novel, a wonderful mix of reality and fantasy, is sexy, funny, disquieting, and unfailingly compelling.If you enjoyed The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto , you might also like Mario Vargas Llosa's In Praise of the Stepmother .
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Los Cuadernos de Don Rigoberto
titlecomplete: Los Cuadernos de Don Rigoberto (Spanish Edition)
genres: Spanish Literature, Nobel Prize, Novels, Literature, Latin American, Erotica, Romance, Fiction, Latin American Literature, Contemporary
ratings_count: 3944
publisher: Suma