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, a laureate of the so-called "Spanish Nobel" - the Cervantes Prize, the Romulo Gallegos Prize, the Grinzane Cavour Prize, the PEN/Nabokov Prize and others. His books "The City and the Dogs", "The Green House", "Aunt Julia and the Writer", "The War of the End of the World", "The Wicked, or the Feast of the Goat", "The Adventures of a Naughty Girl", "Eulogy to the Stepmother" have always become world sensations. Vargas Llosa completes the plot of "Eulogy to the Stepmother" with the novel "The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto". The same heroes - an aging aesthete and erotomaniac, his beautiful wife and her stepson, an angel-imp, a stumbling block and temptation - embark on erotic adventures that make the reader recall the tales of "A Thousand and One Nights". In "Notebooks..." the author also solves a serious artistic problem - he creates a grandiose poetic-musical-pictorial ensemble, a genuine temple of Eros.