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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Spanish: La tía Julia y el escribidor) is the seventh novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa. It was published by Seix Barral, S.A., Spain, in 1977.
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Mar 1, 1977 · 20,986 ratings1,466 reviews. Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, comic novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published as La tía Julia y el escribidor in 1977. Vargas Llosa uses counterpoint, paradox, and satire to explore the creative process of writing and its relation to the daily lives of writers.
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is divided into twenty chapters, of which the odd ones tell the autobiographical story of Marito while the even chapters narrate episodes of soap operas...
Oct 2, 2007 · Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.
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A comedic novel about the education of young Mario and his love for his aunt by marriage, Aunt Julia, in Lima in the 1950s. The novel combines Mario's autobiographical story with Pedro Camacho's soap operas, which reflect the absurdity and chaos of life in Peru.
His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio...
