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A tantalizing erotic fairy tale follow on to In Praise of the Stepmother, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is part inverted Lolita, part Sade, part Eyes Wide Shut but with a plethora of beautiful analogies to literature and art. All the detail and imagery of Egon Schiele (my favorite Austrian Expressionist artist) was wonderful as well as all the biographical details. The scandalous love triangle of Fonchito, Lucretia and Rigoberto is less pronounced than in the previous book, but this one was better written and more complex in structure. It is certainly his best erotic novel and a truly interesting read.

Fino's Mario Vargas Llosa Reviews:
Fiction
The Cubs and Other Stories (1959) TBR
The Time of the Hero (1963)
The Green House (1966)
Conversation in the Cathedral (1969)
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1973)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977)
The War of the End of the World (1981)
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1985)
Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1987)
The Storyteller (1989)
In Praise of the Stepmother (1990)
Death in the Andes (1996)
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1998)
The Feast of the Goat (2001)
The Way to Paradise (2003)
The Bad Girl (2007)
The Dream of the Celt (2010)
The Discrete Hero (2015)
The Neighborhood (2018)
Harsh Times (2021) TBR

Non-Fiction
The Perpetual Orgy (1975)
A Fish Out of Water (1993)
Letters to a Young Novelist (1998)