Legends are rarely erotic, sometimes uplifting - but always wonderful: In "Geography of Desire," his most extensive prose work to date, Jürg Federspiel tells a fairy-tale legend full of fabulous eroticism. Federspiel's story begins with Primo Antonio Robusti, a "powerful man" from Milan, who on his seventieth birthday falls not only in love with his own wealth but soon after with a nineteen-year-old, flirtatiously naive creature named Laura Granati. And thus, Robusti's fate takes a sharp turn...