Pantaleón y las visitadoras
July 17, 2011
Summer reads, holiday books, beach reads. Every magazine pulls up a list once summer approaches, suggesting fixes for the next seasonal reading disorders. Does such even exist?
Not to stray, going through such lists reminded me of Mario Vargas Llosa‘s novel Pantaleon y las visitadoras and how I ended up associating the excruciating hot days of Cyprus summer, and the undeniable consequence it seems to have on the libido and fertility, with Pantaleon.
A fact remains that almost all the couples moving to the island in the same period with us conceived shortly after.
A book I read while suffering from chronic ennui days after days in my cubicle years back. A book I read in two, to be precise.