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"It is not the world of cunning cattle that you and I are part of which interests me and brings me joy or suffering, but the myriad of beings animated by imagination, desire and artistic skill, the beings present in the paintings, books, and prints that I have collected with the patience and love of many years."
Near the beginning of The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, the title character writes these words to the architect designing his new home, thus setting the theme for this slightly fantastical, wholly erotic novel that celebrates the ascendancy of imagination over real life. Readers familiar with Vargas Llosa's work will recognize Don Rigoberto from the earlier In Praise of the Stepmother, in which the author first introduced the middle-aged insurance executive, his beautiful second wife, Lucrecia, and his preternaturally sensual son, Alfonsito. In that book, the pubescent "Fonsito" manages to seduce his stepmother and then writes an essay about the experience that he lets his father read. The novel ends with Lucrecia's expulsion from the household and the revelation that Fonsito had orchestrated the whole thing from the beginning for reasons of his own. Now, in The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto Vargas Llosa picks up where he left off, with Alfonsito's reappearance on the doorstep of Lucrecia's new home. Once again, this "Beelzebub, a viper with the face of an angel" has a hidden agenda--this time, apparently, to reunite his father and stepmother.
As in its predecessor, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto filters erotic passions and desires through art and artifice; Alfonsito uses the life and work of painter Egon Schiele to seduce his stepmother's imagination if not her body; Don Rigoberto and Lucrecia fan the flames of sexual passion through elaborate fantasies that they present as reality. It is almost as if no act, thought, or feeling can be real unless it has first existed in the imagination; even as Rigoberto and Lucrecia make love on their first night back together he informs her that, in his notebooks, she "'has gone to bed with many people all year.' 'I want details,' Dona Lucrecia gasp[s], speaking with difficulty. 'All of them, even the tiniest. What I did, what I ate, what was done to me.'"
The novel is the literary equivalent of matryoshki, those nests of dolls within dolls that Russian toymakers made to enthrall young children. Egon Schiele's life story, Lucrecia's erotic encounters, Rigoberto's notebooks, the 20 anonymous letters that reunite Rigoberto and his wife--all unfold, stories within stories and fantasies within fiction, until Vargas Llosa arrives, at last, at his happy ending, with a twist. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is erotic without being graphic, so fantastical that even the seduction of a 40-year-old matron by a pubescent boy reads more like myth (think Cupid and Psyche) than today's headlines. Vargas Llosa's cool, wry prose helps to elevate the hijinks above the merely prurient, making this fable of love, art, and manipulation a pleasure without guilt. --Alix Wilber
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A companion to the scandalous bestseller In Praise of the Stepmother, Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel is "an amazingly seductive work" (San Francisco Chronicle).
The boundary between physical reality and the imagination has been at the heart of literature in Spanish ever since Don Quixote. In The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, his most generous and ambitious novel in years, Mario Vargas Llosa draws on that tradition to explore the possibilities of imagination in our own time.
Set in Lima, the novel tells of a love triangle: Don Rigoberto himself, by day a gray insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast; his second wife, Lucrecia; and his young son, Alfonso. Husband and wife are estranged because of a sexual encounter between Lucrecia and the boy, a fey, angelic creature who may have seduced her (rather than the other way around). Missing Lucrecia terribly, Rigoberto fills his notebooks with memories, fantasies, and unsent letters; meanwhile the boy visits Lucrecia, determined to regain her favor and win her love. The resulting novel, an intoxicating mix of reality and fantasy, is sexy, funny, disquieting, and unfailingly compelling.
"Exuberant . . . a roguish and sophisticated sex comedy." --Time
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fathers and sons.......2007-06-16
a little bit of scheherazade, a little bit of italio calvino, a little of garcia marquez, and a little bit of john barth's letters. erotica and classy pornography, opulence and an art lover's dream. and of course huysmans' against the grain epicurean, des esseintes, who llosa's don rigoberto follows into the solitude of accumulated sensual pleasures.
don rigoberto commissions an architect to design a house for his objects, his books and his art collection, a house don rigoberto and his second wife and the son of his first wife will share with the possessions. don rigoberto's collection is a precise four thousand objects. in the house is an enormous fireplace. as don rigoberto acquires new purchases, he must choose existing pieces of his collection to consume in the flames of his fireplace to keep his four thousand piece collection extant. what is consumed to the flames is saved, in essence, in don rigoberto's voluminous notebooks. part of the pleasure of reading vargas llosa's don rigoberto is tracking down some of the paintings and writings don rigoberto mentions.
unlike des esseintes, the bachelor, don rigoberto, a twice married man, who centers his wife in his fantasies and erotics, is a father, which raises a moral question: what obligation does a parent have to a child, a father to a son, when the father's predilection is toward perversity? a question that becomes more important when don rigoberto, with his son, separates from his wife, and retreats with his notebooks and letters in his study away from his son who, unknown to his father, pays frequent visits to his stepmother, bringing with him his obsession with egon schiele. some of the artist's drawings are included in the book.
this book is a sequel to in praise of the stepmother. i wish i had read the stepmother before don rigoberto. rigoberto presents a tension, a mystery, that's weakened by reading the book after the stepmother.
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto.......2006-12-12
Don Rigoberto and Dona Lucrecia have recently separated. Dona Lucrecia, in a moment of weakness, extended their game of nightly fantasy and exploration into reality, allowing herself to be seduced by Fonchito, Don Rigoberto's young son from a previous marriage. Now, both Don Rigoberto and Dona Lucrecia are miserable, living apart when all they want to do is be together.
The novel is constructed with several timelines, only one of which is easily identifiable. The main thread of the narrative explores Dona Lucrecia's guilt, but also her growing awareness that Fonchito is the seducer par excellence. He uses his young, lithe body as a constant tool for seduction, and as he learns what makes his stepmother blush and what makes her cringe, he develops his language such that Dona Lucrecia is constantly confused as to just what it is this young man wants from her.
Fonchito's obsession with Egon Schiele, an Austrian figurative painter from the early twentieth century, forms another layer of the novel. He is incredibly knowledgeable about this tortured figure, quoting him incessantly and showing his stepmother Schiele's paintings, a large number of which are erotic or nudes. Fonchito believes that his own life will mimic that of Schiele's, which is to say that he will die of Spanish Flu at twenty-eight. It is worth noting that throughout Schiele's short life, his work was considered obscene, due to the explicit nature of his paintings.
The other, most easily definable aspect of the novel is Don Rigoberto himself. Very often, we learn of Don Rigoberto through his erotic, fantasy-filled discussions with his wife. We are given the impression that the bedroom is where Don Rigoberto comes to life, it is where he is truly a man - outside of it, he is described as ugly, as bland, as grey. But through the erotic coupling of man and wife, Don Rigoberto reveals a passion for drama, for fantasy, for impression.
It is unclear whether Don Rigoberto's discussions with his wife are about fantasies they share, of experiences she has had, or whether the entire situation itself is a fantasy. Llosa weaves his tale in such a way that we are left - not confused - but guessing. Do all these extremely varied and erotic encounters really happen to Dona Lucrecia? Why does Don Rigoberto allow them if, by his own admission, they tear his heart and wound his soul? Are the stories just that - devices for mutual titillation?
The passages where Dona Lucrecia describes her adventures to Don Rigoberto are usually extremely erotic, as well as beautifully written. Llosa does not shy away from even the most taboo of taboos, so a brief warning should be made. While the writing is always tasteful, and more often than not ambiguously shrouded with metaphor and simile, there is no denying that topics such as bestiality, incest and so forth might be too much for some readers.
We come to learn of Dona Lucrecia and Don Rigoberto's relationship best through their bedtime conversations. There is the gentle give and take of the married couple, the words left unsaid and the ones that shouldn't have been mentioned. There is an overwhelming sense of comfort and knowledge that is often touching - these scenes are written by a man with a clear eye for the erotic awareness that a couple must surely have after ten years together.
If you were to strip the eroticism out of the novel, there would not be much left - this is a novel on love alone. A passage towards the end, titled 'Letter to the Reader of Playboy, or A Brief Treatise on Aesthetics', is the clearest statement of the entire piece. This is Llosa's impassioned cry for the secretive withdrawal of eroticism, the sacred bond that a couple shares with one another. He decries the commerce of these magazines, recognising that they de-mistify, but also de-eroticise what should be the magic and splendour of sex and love. He says, 'pornography strips eroticism of its artistic content, favors the organic over the spiritual and mental, as if the central protagonists of desire and pleasure were phalluses and vulvas and these organs not mere servants to the phantoms that govern our souls and segregates physical love from the rest of human experience.'. We can but only agree.
Possible the greatest difficulty of the novel is that we don't know what to trust and who to believe. There are early indications that Dona Lucrecia's grand adventures - a week-long trip to New York and Paris among the greatest inventions - are completely fictional, but there are also hints that they might all be true. As the novel progresses, we are exposed to greater, less likely situations, and in these, the language used indicates still further the dreamlike quality of the narrative. But is it a dream? Does it all come down to what is recorded in Don Rigoberto's notebooks? The answer, when it comes, is both surprising and expected. The novel ties itself into a neat bow and really, it couldn't be any other way.
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is a fascinating journey through the sexual lives of a couple that are both sexually and emotionally comfortable with one another. While erotic, it is never vulgar, and deserves a place alongside Marquez' magnificent essay on love, Love in the Time of Cholera, Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Roth's The Dying Animal.
Imaginative and entertaining.......2004-11-10
Jilted by his lovely wife, Don Rigoberto becomes a depressed man who sits in his studies to read and put his thoughts on paper. Memories of his beautiful wife are the chief topics of his writings, and so are his perverted fantasies about her. In between these, we are also entertained by some letters written (but never sent) to various people from strangers to celebrities to his neighbours highlighting his grouses about them. Through his writings, a picture begins to emerge on the strange occurrences of him losing his wife.
Notebooks are too weak of a literary device.......2003-04-17
"The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto" is a demonstrative example of Mario Vargas Llosa's vast imagination. In this book, Vargas Llosa uses the medium of notebooks -- diaries of fantasy, in essence -- to convey a series of sexual and erotic tales, written by his character, Don Rigoberto. Some of the stories are quite compelling and draw in the reader with terrific success. But, as the narrative unfolds, it becomes apparent that the tales in Don Rigoberto's notebooks do not sufficiently intertwine. In fact, they are fantasies, often completely unrelated to the previous, except in their erotic content. As a result, the narrative is not constructed chapter-by-chapter; rather it consists of a hodge-podge collection of freewritings, scribbled in a notebook, and scattered around an ongoing tale (which begins each chapter) of the exotic relationship between his wife and son. Despite the complex fantasies of the notebooks, it becomes apparent that disjointed stories in scrawled notepads, while interesting, are not a sufficiently successful narrative device. The reader is left wanting to see the various parts come together. But most do not.
Erotic dreams.......2002-09-15
This is a sequel to "In Praise of the Stepmother," of the love triangle between Don Rigoberto, Lucretia, and Alfonso (Fonchito), returning to the theme of love attraction between a boy and an older female relative. It must be said that this theme has an autobiographical connotation, since Mario Vargas Llosa fell in love and married his much older aunt.
Don Rigoberto belongs to the bourgeois society, a successful businessman who at night pursues his hedonistic, eccenric passions. Separated from his second wife Lucretia, he indulges in fantasies to make up for his longing. Lucretia the devoted wife, whose passions and fantasies rivals those of her husband, has been accused of seducing his angelic and at the same time "luciferian" son Fonchito, a precocious little boy who shows an obsessive interest in Egon Schiele's paintings.
After reading some of Don Rigoerto letters, it becomes obvious to the reader that he is not recounting real experiences but using fantasy to fulfill his loneliness. His narration sometimes becomes tedious and repetitive; fortunately, his fantasy is sometimes broken by some discourses in which he attacks modern society from a variety of angles: patriotism, philosophy, militant feminists, sport enthusiasts, history, etc. Meanwhile, Fonchito applies his knowledge of life and work of painter Egon Schiele to seduce his stepmother's imagination whilst the reader is left to decide whether this young boy is a truly innocent and naive, or a pathological character. The extensive analysis of Schiele's work , details of famaous paintings, and other bits of general culture will add some interest to the narrative, and will compensate for Fonchito's irritating call "stepmamá, stepmamá..."
If it was Mario Vargas Llosa intention to transplant the aesthetic beauty of a classical work of art into literary fiction, the end result falls short of its objective. A work of art will leave the viewer with an open door to fulfill his imagination, whilst "The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto" is utterly saturated with less than artistic fantasy.
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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. This is much more than a mere erotic novel; it is a story that touches the core of reality and desire, on how a life created by imagination can balance the narrowness of the real world. Description in Spanish: Don Rigoberto llena cuadernos con anotaciones, comentarios, diatribas y fantasías para defenderse de la banalidad. También para soportar la nostalgia que siente por su mujer, Lucrecia, de quien lleva unos meses separado por algo que sucedió entre ella y el hijo de don Rigoberto. Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto es mucho más que una novela erótica. Es también una novela sobre la realidad y el deseo, sobre cómo la vida de la imaginación puede compensar los estrechos gestos de la vida real. "Lo erótico es la dignificación del sexo a través de la fantasía y la cultura." Mario Vargas Llosa. Una obra llena de fantasía, escrita para defenderse de la banalidad.
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Desencanto.......2001-10-24
Tengo que admitir que quede tristemente decepcionado al leer este libro. Considero a Vargas Llosa como uno de los mejores escritores latinoamericanos, pero definitavemente esta obra no es la mejor. Sin no fuese por el estilo narrativo inconfundible de Vargas Llosa, dejo este libro por la mitad!!
picaro.......1999-12-24
este libro es bien entretenido y picaro y para mi muestra al hombre del nuevo milenio, un hombre normal, que da rienda suelta a sus fantasias y que esta dispuesto a dejar quie su esposa las comparta, es muy entretenido ya que el autor no deja caer el tono y el libro se mantiene a traves de sus trescientas paginas. muy recomendado. Luis Mendez
No pierde el ritmo literario.......1999-12-14
Vargas LLosa no pierde el ritmo literario, au'n en su u'ltima novela. En argumento, al principio pareciera no tener nada destellante, sin embargo conforme iba leyendo, me gusto' la trama que se desencadena al final, ciertas li'neas pi'caras y el lenguaje de un gran escritor. Una novela para buenos lectores y amantes de la literatura.
A good book.......1998-10-21
Slow in the start, it gets very interesting in the last 10 to 15 pages. But to get there one has to read all the little clues. Almost like a little mistery novel, the taste after reading is of a bittersweet confusion. The message if any, is tastefully conceiled in subtleties. It is made for one to think.
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Title: Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto.(TT: Don Rigoberto's Notebooks)
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"Even Dinah. Lethal little Dinah.".......2005-12-05
I would like to start out by saying that just the very last chapter, involving a visit from Mxy, is worth the price of the collection. Time are hard in the DCU and sometimes even Superman must be reminded that we all live in hope. Who would have figured it would be our favorite imp from the fifth dimension who would remind us all of this.
Greg Rucka, I guess, and I am glad for it.
Since last year we have seen Rucka write some incredible Superman stories trully developing the character and turning Adventures of Superman into the best of the Superman books. Superman acts like Superman without having to live in a four color world. Rucka portrays Clark Kent as a complex character without reducing him to whinning indecision. Superman will face a greater dilema later in Sacrifice and its aftermath, but that is neither here nor there in regards to this book.
Seriously, folks, pick this up, the best Superman in years.
Ignore the one-star witlings.......2005-10-30
This is a good effort by a writer who understands the subtleties of the characters involved. While some of us may be naive enough to proclaim what a fictional character can and cannot do, Rucka has the maturity and intelligence to realize that the viewpoint of an Amazon warrior is not guided by a "Super Friends" mentality. His stories also display a nice tendency to allow the characters to explain their own actions if you have the patience to allow them to develop.
The Best of the Current Crop of Superman Books!.......2005-08-06
"Superman: Unconventional Warfare" is well worth your time and money, if you like Superman. In this book, you will find solid, character-driven stories and beautiful art. The book's serious tone is interrupted by just the right amount of comic relief from the social interactions of the cast (and Mr. Myztlplk as well).
Of all the post-Birthright Superman comics, this one is by far the best, capturing a lot of the magic of the late-eighties/early-nineties era when the Superman books were picked by the Comics Buyer's Guide as "the best mainstream superhero books on the market". This modern version fits very nicely on a bookshelf beside those stories. It's much more in that vein than any other modern collection.
RECOMMENDED.
A good read, with some flaws........2005-07-24
"Superman - That Healing Touch" is the second volume reprinting mystery novelist and comics writer Greg Rucka's run on the "Adventures of Superman" comic series. The first volume, "Unconventional Warfare" was an exceptional read that hearkened in many ways back to the "glory days" of the modern Superman in the late eighties and early nineties (stories reprinted in volumes such as "Exile", "Tima and Time Again", "Panic in the Sky", and the three volumes of "Man of Steel"). The key was that it captured perfectly the human elements of Clark Kent. And one more thing about "Unconventional Warfare". Superman faced a new villain named "Ruin" (all the good villain names are taken, I gues). It ended on something of a cliffhanger, as Superman's wife, Lois Lane, was shot down in a warzone by a sniper as she served as an embedded journalist.
"That Healing Touch" begins two months later. We learn that Lois is okay and recuperating under the care of her and Clark's mothers. Superman is continuing to hunt for Ruin and a set of twins the fiend has kidnapped. Unfortunately, Ruin has transformed the kids into the next generation of the classic Superman villain, the Parasite. This time, there are two of them. The book is basically about Superman's battles with the twins, and at last, a confrontation with Ruin. Finally, we have a certain 5th dimensional immp dropping by to give Clark and Lois a glimpse of the daughter they might just be having in the not-too-distant future.
All in all, this is a good read, but certainly a step down from "Unconventional Warfare". The two main flaws are as follows: that Rucka doesn't concentrate so much on Clark this time (and when he does, he doesn't quite nail the character this time around) and that there is a rotating array of artists this time, ranging from exceptional (Rags Morales) to adequate (I won't name names). The difference in styles is jarring, especially since seveal of the styles don't really fit Superman that well.
Finally, I was disappointed that the book doesn't really resolve anything with the Ruin character. We have to settle for magical assurances from Mr. Mxyztplk that everything will work out in the end. I suppose there will be another volume that finally shows Ruin's...well, ruin, but this storyline has dragged on way too long now.
On the good side, Superman's protective nature really shows through here, there's some great scenes concentrating on family, and Jimmy Olsen hits on a girl with funny results (until Ruin shows up).
Mild Recommendations.
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A Little Twist.......2005-08-24
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Good Primer for Jewish Philosophy and History.......2002-11-23
This is an amazing treatise for those who need to understand biblical context or the some of the beliefs undergirding the Israel-Palestine conflict. There is not another book like it. Seltzer does an amazing job of telling this story in a clear and concise way.
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In this excellent, readable and scholarly book we find the most comprehensive review of Jewish civilization, Jewish history and Jewish thinking. This unique book combines the study of Jewish history with profound analysis of Jewish thought. A must book for every student of Jewish history as well as for those seeking to learn more about the Jewish people through its history.
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The central issue in this book are the federal ideas in the Zionist political thought during seventy years, from the early 1920s to the late 1990s. These ideas and plans had a double meaning and purpose: to find a suitable political bi-national structure for the Jews and Arabs in Palestine, which will enable both of them to fulfill their national goals, and to enable the Jewish people in the world to make Palestine their homeland by free immigration.
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A re-examination of Jewish scripture and teachings about disabilities
Few people are untouched by the issue of disability, whether personally or through a friend or relative. Jewish Perspectives on Theology and the Human Experience of Disability shares moving insights from around the world and across the broad spectrum of Judaism on how and why the Jewish community is incomplete without the presence and participation of the disabled. Authors representing each of the three main movements of Judaism--Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform--examine theology, scripture, ethics, practical theology, religious education, and personal experience to understand and apply the lessons and wisdom of the past to issues of the present.
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