The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

Signed by the author on the title page. Publisher's full burgundy cloth, white lettering on spine. Translated by Edith Grossman. Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa (born 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, college professor, and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. "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." Vargas Llosa was the winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. He was the winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995, and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition. AS NEW/AS NEW. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (vi), 259 pp. Signed by Author

Product Info

ISBN: 0571193099

ISBN-13: 9780571193097

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Year: 1998

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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