Don Rigoberto fills pages with notes, comments, and fantasies to protect himself from ordinariness. He also uses them to escape the longing he feels for Lucrecia, his wife, from whom hes separated as a result of something that transpired between her and his son. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is, in many ways, much more than mere erotic novel, it is a testament to reality and desire, a testimony of the myriad of ways imagination can compensate for the limitations imposed by real life. The erotic is the dignification of sex through fantasy and culture, Vargas Llosa.
About the Author
Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century s most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Edith Grossman (1936-2023) began working as a professional translator in 1972, and a full-time translator in 1990. Her translations of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Carlos Fuentes are contemporary classics. Her translation of Don Quixote is widely considered a masterpiece.
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