The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: Principally Barranca and Lima, Peru, with episodes in New York, Paris, Venice, Mexico City, and Charlottesville, Virginia
- Principal Characters: Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, Alfonso (“Fonchito”), Justiniana, Egon Schiele
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Wives, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Antiheroes, Fantasy, Separation, Men, Peru or Peruvians, Voyeurism
- Locales: Peru, New York, Paris, France, Venice, Italy, Mexico City, Mexico, Charlottesville, VA
Compatriots of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa who fear he may have taken a turn toward pornography will likely find confirmation in The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto. The novel features one titillating sex scene after another, each building to its own kind of climax in the style of pornographic movies. Yet the scenes are definitely inventive—variations on a theme, with a good deal of fetishism thrown in—and one could argue that they stop short of bad taste, or at least only skirt the edges. Instead, one might describe the novel as a virtual smorgasbord of soft...
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