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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
novel by Vargas Llosa
Also known as: “La tía Julia y el escribidor”
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.
One half of the story is an autobiographical account of an aspiring writer named Marito Varguitas, who falls in love with Julia, the divorced sister-in-law of his Uncle Lucho. Vargas Llosa based this story on his own career as a journalist and his courtship of his first wife, Julia. Marito’s success at writing and romance contrasts with the fortunes of Pedro Camacho, the protagonist of the other half of the story, who is a devoted but declining author of radio soap operas.
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