Mario Vargas Llosa is a world-famous Peruvian novelist, one of the creators of the “boom” of Latin American prose, an undoubted and obvious contender for the Nobel Prize, laureate of the so-called “Spanish Nobel” - the Cervantes Prize, the Romulo Gallegos Prize, the Grinzane Cavour Prize, PEN/Nabokov" and others. His books “The City and the Dogs”, “The Green House”, “Aunt Julia and the Scribe”, “The War of the End of the World”, “The Wicked, or the Feast of the Goat”, “Adventures of a Bad Girl”, “A Praise for the Stepmother” each time became a world sensation . With the novel “The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto” Vargas Llosa completes the plot of “Eulogy to the Stepmother.” The same heroes - an aging esthete and erotomaniac, his beautiful wife and her stepson, an angel-imp, a stumbling block and temptation - embark on erotic adventures that make the reader remember the tales of the Arabian Nights. In “Notebooks...” the author also solves a serious artistic problem - he creates a grandiose poetic, musical and pictorial ensemble, a true temple of Eros.