Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 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.

A propos de l'auteur

Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. He also won the Cervantes Prize, the most distinguished literary honour in the Spanish-speaking world. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, The Bad Girl and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter as well as several collections of essays, journalism and plays. He died in April 2025.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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Mario Vargas Llosa, Vargas Llosa, Mario Vargas Llosa
• Collaboration: Edith Grossman (Traduction), Edith (Translator) Grossman (Traduction), Grossman Edith (Traduction)
• Edition: Faber & Faber
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 23.08.1999
• EAN: 9780571195756
• ISBN: 978-0-571-19575-6
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary