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Patio de los Silos

Mónica Boixeda

Patio de los Silos is an atypical square in Valencia where one can find the tapas of the old silos that were used to supply the city with food.

The Paintings of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa

Mónica Boixeda

Not only does it possess the function of maintaining the existence of our species in the world – but it is also an enormous part of our lives, in terms of pleasure, motivation and satisfaction – there is no question that sex is important, and art has been one of the things to help us realise this through time. In the case of literature, there are many works which approach the erotic and sexual wonderfully, reaching impressive new heights each time. Such is the case with “Los cuadernos de Don Rigoberto” (“The Paintings of Don Rigoberto“) by Mario Vargas Llosa (winner of Nobel Prize for Literature 2010) – the authors second sexually themed novel (the first was Elogio de la Madrastra), presenting an exciting, intriguing fusion of sex, art, fiction and reality. Don Rigoberto, an ordinary, everyman in his 50s, fights the monotony of his life with his imagination. He is the protagonist of the novel, and the subject of its erotic fantasies – like that in the second chapter of the book, when we see Lucrecia, his wife, in bed, naked, excited and spreading honey on herself – to later release the kittens that Rigoberto has given her, and letting them follow their senses. There´s another person who creates tension in the novel – a young man who takes sex to its limits; to the very borderline of the morally acceptable. He is called Fonchito, and is the teenage son of Don Rigoberto, and step-son to Lucrecia – a slim, intelligent man who awakens Lucrecia´s sexuality with his games (she is after his step-mother – if she was...