Word: lucrecia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, the middle-aged connoisseur can't keep other eyes--and hands--off his prized acquisition, second wife Lucrecia. Nor does he necessarily want to, as long as his beautiful and loving mate shares the aphrodisiacal details with...
...only up to a point. The irresistible Lucrecia is sadly ordered out of the house after a dalliance with her husband's 17-year-old son Alfonso, an art student and devilishly knowing seducer. Not for "Fonchito" such cloddish lines as "come up and see my etchings." Instead, he patiently inflames his reluctant step-mother with his enthusiasm for the tragic life and erotic work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele...
...book's hero is Don Rigoberto, a well-to-do widower in Lima who has recently married Dona Lucrecia: "In his youth he had been a fervent militant in Catholic Action and dreamed of changing the world." The grownup Rigoberto has set his sights on a different goal: the pursuit of moments of transcendent personal pleasure. These he seeks in his nightly sessions in the bathroom, where, according to a strict schedule ("The Wednesday Ear Ritual"), he cleans and maintains a different portion of his anatomy; then he gallops toward the marriage bed for inventive trysts with the compliant Lucrecia...
...snake in this hermetically sealed paradise, in the person of Rigoberto's son Alfonso. The lad's age is not specified, although when he runs up and hugs his stepmother, his head rests just slightly above her waist. Alfonso seems unusually ardent for such a little fellow. Lucrecia spots him spying on her through a window while she bathes; figuring that anything goes in this weird household, she puts on quite a show. When Rigoberto leaves for a business trip, Alfonso takes over as the man of the house. What will Rigoberto do if he ever finds...
When answered, these questions generate some genuine pathos. Still, despite his professed admiration for eroticism in fiction -- his book of essays on Flaubert is called The Perpetual Orgy -- Vargas Llosa seems uneasy with the conventions of the naughty book. For all his celebrations of the flesh -- his own and Lucrecia's -- Rigoberto might have been happier if he had got out a little more, maybe even run for President of Peru...