Set in Lima, the novel tells of a love triangle whose participants may be the fictional creations of Don Rigoberto: Rigoberto himself, by day a gra...
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Jan 15, 2011
Praj
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New Year’s Day hits me the hardest. Flood gates are opened with gusto of treacherous past mocking my civilized sanctuary. Liquor cabinets once again see the light generating frenzy in my large intestine. Endless boxes of Kleenex are opened in utter delight, warm vegetable broth stream down my esophagus, Tylenol suddenly seems appetizing and the family physician prances like Rudolph as he can now put a down payment on his new condo. So, there it is one of the many traditions of a new dawn. As for
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Jan 01, 2011
Coincidence
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لا يجب أن تُقرأ هذه الدفاتر قبل قراءة رواية " امتداح الخالة "
سيتضح الكثير من اللبس الذي قد يحدث عند قراءة الدفاتر دون معرفة القصة الأساسية.
تعرفت من خلال هذا الكتاب عن الفنان النمساوي غريب الاطوار ايغون شيلي و رسوماته التي تشكل تفاصيل جوهرية في الرواية و خبث الطفل الذي تقمص اسلوب الرسام واستغل طريقة حياة الرسام الماجنة في اكتساب مشاعر وعاطفة زوجة ابيه الذي كان سبباً في انفصالها عن ابيه مستغلاً برائته وقدرته عن الإزدواجية والتصنع .. عدا ذلك ماتحوي الرسالة سوى تهويمات وخيالات دون ريغوبيرتو لزوجته ف More...
سيتضح الكثير من اللبس الذي قد يحدث عند قراءة الدفاتر دون معرفة القصة الأساسية.
تعرفت من خلال هذا الكتاب عن الفنان النمساوي غريب الاطوار ايغون شيلي و رسوماته التي تشكل تفاصيل جوهرية في الرواية و خبث الطفل الذي تقمص اسلوب الرسام واستغل طريقة حياة الرسام الماجنة في اكتساب مشاعر وعاطفة زوجة ابيه الذي كان سبباً في انفصالها عن ابيه مستغلاً برائته وقدرته عن الإزدواجية والتصنع .. عدا ذلك ماتحوي الرسالة سوى تهويمات وخيالات دون ريغوبيرتو لزوجته ف More...
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Aug 05, 2011
Colin N.
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"Don Rigoberto" is fascinating, beautiful, evocative, funny, erotic, and bizarre. The book is brilliantly structured, and to explain too much would spoil the fun of figuring out what you are reading and how it all ties together.
But to give a rough idea of what the book is about (without spoiling anything) - it describes the life of Don Rigoberto, an unassuming insurance man who carefully crafts his world so that he can transcend his mundane worklife through art, imagination, sex, a More...
But to give a rough idea of what the book is about (without spoiling anything) - it describes the life of Don Rigoberto, an unassuming insurance man who carefully crafts his world so that he can transcend his mundane worklife through art, imagination, sex, a More...
Dec 30, 2011
Miro
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I am not entirely sure if I like it or have just enjoyed it. While I am otherwise not particularly fond of post-modernistic tendencies in literature, meaning the ever-so-present intertextuality, Llosa's language and style suit me fine here, even when I haven't the slightest what is Rigoberto on about. His fantasies are of some value and weight (perverted in such a wonderful way <3), poetic and sentimental, although his tendency to constantly filter the world through art, that is, experiencing
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Aug 01, 2011
Yalinda
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Sin duda me gusto mas la primera parte, Elogio de la Madrastra.
En esta ocasión el autor nos llena de una ficción que se alimenta de ficción, algo interesante ya que todos nosotros creamos mundos ficticios a partir de nuestros deseos y los introducimos en nuestra vida real. Don Rigoberto, el personaje principal es en su mundo secreto y fantasioso todo lo contrario a él en su vida real.
Navegando entre las líneas de esa ficción y fantasía en sus cuadernos, llega un punto en que More...
En esta ocasión el autor nos llena de una ficción que se alimenta de ficción, algo interesante ya que todos nosotros creamos mundos ficticios a partir de nuestros deseos y los introducimos en nuestra vida real. Don Rigoberto, el personaje principal es en su mundo secreto y fantasioso todo lo contrario a él en su vida real.
Navegando entre las líneas de esa ficción y fantasía en sus cuadernos, llega un punto en que More...
Dec 01, 2009
Finished! Father, son and wife - they certainly all deserve eachother. I will throw at you all the thoughts that this novel throws at me. These three characters continually throw the real and the imaginary at each other. Delightfully, absurdly and horribly. What is real and what isn't? Well the reader never really knows, and finally one stops caring. This is a fairy tale for adults! Did I enjoy reading it? Sometimes yes and sometimes I hated it. The author plays with the readers. So how many st
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Jun 18, 2010
Ahmed
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هذا الطفل الشيطاني فنتوشيو و والده غريب الأطوار و تلك الدفاتر التي كتبها طول عمره و عاد ليفتحها مرة أخرى بعد أن انفصل عن لوكري زوجته التي يتخيلها في مواقف إيروتيكية شاذة مستوحاة من لوحاته و دفاتره و خياله المريض
رواية ممتازة لمن يعشق الغرابة
this is a bold novel with very erotic and sophisticated base,this correlation bet father an son,this filthy imagination of the don,this wonderful highly talented storytelling is wat i respected in the novel
a good book for those dnt mind a lit More...
رواية ممتازة لمن يعشق الغرابة
this is a bold novel with very erotic and sophisticated base,this correlation bet father an son,this filthy imagination of the don,this wonderful highly talented storytelling is wat i respected in the novel
a good book for those dnt mind a lit More...
Jun 15, 2011
Aussi quand quelqu'un dit autour de moi "le Chinois", "le Noir", "les Péruviens", "les Français", "les femmes" ou toute autre expression équivalente avec la prétention de définir un être humain par son appartenance à une collectivité de tout ordre et non comme circonstance négligeable, j'ai envie de sortir mon revolver et -poum poum -... de tirer. (Il s'agit d'une figure poétique évidemment; je n'ai jamais eu d'arme à feu dans la main, ni n'en au
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Mar 07, 2011
Angel
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I wanted to like this book a lot more, but in the end I was only lukewarm at best about it. I have some mixed feelings about it, and I hope I can convey that as I write this note. On the one hand, Vargas Llosa is indeed a master writer who can craft a sentence. The erotic and love scenes in the novel are simply beautifully described. The language and imagery are great. The use of literary and artistic references is also very good, and I tend to like books that make use of references and allusion
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Jul 18, 2009
Tony
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I think these are (some of) the questions raised in this wonderfully bawdy novel:
--What is real? Where do my dreams and desires stop and where does reality begin? Or do the spheres seep back and forth after all?
--How much could you suffer for love?
--Is it true that the child is the father to the man?
Don Rigoberto's son is this amazing character: wise beyond his years; completely innocent and not innocent at all; (metaphorical?).
This i More...
--What is real? Where do my dreams and desires stop and where does reality begin? Or do the spheres seep back and forth after all?
--How much could you suffer for love?
--Is it true that the child is the father to the man?
Don Rigoberto's son is this amazing character: wise beyond his years; completely innocent and not innocent at all; (metaphorical?).
This i More...
May 14, 2011
Mashael
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يبدو أنها شيطنات أخرى لطفل آخر يكتب عنه يوسا الكاتب البيروفي غريب الأطوار والأفكار ,
كل شيء يصنع من يوسا كاتب مختلف تماماً يكتب بجنون أكيد , كل كتاباته عبارة عن شذوذ عن القاعدة ( وليس كل شذوذ سيء
بدرجة أو بأخرى ) يقول : "إننا لا نكتب الروايات كي نروي الحياة ,وإنما كي نحولها مضيفين إليها شيء ما",
دون ريغو بيرتو عمل آخر من أعمال ماريو فاراغاس يوسا كـ جزء آخر أو تكملة لـ رواية إمتداح الخالة , بالرغم من أنني أعتبر يوسا من أكثر الكتاب المذهلين من حيث حبكة القصة و More...
كل شيء يصنع من يوسا كاتب مختلف تماماً يكتب بجنون أكيد , كل كتاباته عبارة عن شذوذ عن القاعدة ( وليس كل شذوذ سيء
بدرجة أو بأخرى ) يقول : "إننا لا نكتب الروايات كي نروي الحياة ,وإنما كي نحولها مضيفين إليها شيء ما",
دون ريغو بيرتو عمل آخر من أعمال ماريو فاراغاس يوسا كـ جزء آخر أو تكملة لـ رواية إمتداح الخالة , بالرغم من أنني أعتبر يوسا من أكثر الكتاب المذهلين من حيث حبكة القصة و More...
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May 24, 2011
Patrick
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I started out quite liking this just for the writing. But I found myself swinging from laughing at the witty, over-the-top rantings of Rigoberto's letters, to smiling at the sexual obsessions, and then to cringing at the ridiculous Oedipal carrying on between his wife and son. The main "story" drags on to a pointless, obvious, and unsatisfying end, although there is some good writing and a biting satire of the comfortable class along the way. Skim for the letters and Rigoberto's fantas
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Oct 24, 2010
Justin
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It's artfully done, and the prose is lovely even if the topics aren't always my thing. The early passages remind me more of Coover than I expected (but without the disorientation). I'm not sure Llosa has things worked out as well as he should, or maybe the book really just is more straightforward than I was anticipating.
Aug 07, 2011
Sensualidad, amor e imaginación, es lo que encuentras en Rigoberto y Lucrecia; matrimonio que se encuentra separado por un niño demasiado precoz.
Extraordinaria descripción de los episodios apasionados y las menciones de algunas obras de arte.
Extraordinaria descripción de los episodios apasionados y las menciones de algunas obras de arte.
Jan 03, 2012
Andreia
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Ora bem, este livro é estranho. Primeiro demorei a perceber a lógica de cada capitulo e depois cheguei à conclusão que uma parte era diálogos e outra parte as imaginações (com bolinha) do Dom Rigoberto!
É divertido e fluido.
Digamos que o Nobel ainda não me convenceu!
É divertido e fluido.
Digamos que o Nobel ainda não me convenceu!
Dec 18, 2008
Started this a couple of years ago, didn't finish it, but I don't remember much about it. I'll give it another try soon, mostly because Vargas Llosa can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned.
Feb 06, 2012
Bruna
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Bom, mas chato. Desisti no meio e me convenci a voltar. Mas, como tudo do Llosa, muito bem escrito e no fim não me arrependi de chegar ao fim!
Aug 11, 2011
Amida
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There is more to sex than what you can see or touch.
Hay más detrás del sexo que lo que se puede ver y tocar.
Hay más detrás del sexo que lo que se puede ver y tocar.
Oct 25, 2010
Angelo
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Title in Portuguese: Os Cadernos de Rigoberto
(trad. J. Teixeira de Aguilar)
Ed Dom Quixote,
(Lisboa, 2007)
- a fun read and suggestive.
Notes.
The erotic adventures, constructed from the painting by Egon Schiele, of the literary and musical works.
(trad. J. Teixeira de Aguilar)
Ed Dom Quixote,
(Lisboa, 2007)
- a fun read and suggestive.
Notes.
The erotic adventures, constructed from the painting by Egon Schiele, of the literary and musical works.
Mar 01, 2009
This is my first Vargas-Llosa. I'm impressed with the richness of language.
Mar 16, 2010
Oakley
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The sequel to 'In Praise of the Stepmother'. Completely scathing and immoral!
Dec 29, 2008
Anna
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An interesting story of separated spouses mixed up with their erotic fantasies and flavoured with art and quotations. Unusual way of narration.
Jan 07, 2012
Gabriela
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A seductive work, set in a whirl of passion and philosophical ideas.
Mar 13, 2008
Nubia
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An erotic novel. It is the second part of Prise of the Stepmother For those who need to have the complete story, if you read the stepmother then you shoul read this. The eroticism was carefully put this time.
Una novela erotica. Es realmente la segunda parte del Elogio de la Madrastra. Si leyo el primero, entonces debe leer el segundo.
Una novela erotica. Es realmente la segunda parte del Elogio de la Madrastra. Si leyo el primero, entonces debe leer el segundo.
