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...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...
...Lucrecia...
Died. Lucrezia Bori, 72, Spanish-born (as Lucrecia Borjay Gonzalez de Riancho) Metropolitan Opera lyric soprano who began her Met career singing with Caruso, gave tender feeling to the roles of Mimi and Violetta, was a Met favorite for 24 years before retiring in 1936 while at her peak ("I want to finish while I am still at my best"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...