Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is a brilliantly comic and semi-autobiographical novel set in 1950s Lima, Peru, by Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa. The narrative interweaves two captivating storylines: the romance between eighteen-year-old Marito, a young radio journalist with literary ambitions, and his divorced aunt-by-marriage Julia, who is fourteen years his senior. Running parallel to this charming love story are the wildly melodramatic and increasingly unhinged radio soap operas written by the eccentric Bolivian scriptwriter Pedro Camacho, whose fictional plots hilariously begin to bleed into one another. Written with sharp wit and narrative ingenuity, the novel illustrates the fine line between art and life, passion and obsession, reality and fiction. A masterwork of Latin American literature, it stands as one of Vargas Llosa's most accessible and entertaining works, drawing on his own youthful experiences in a vibrant, richly detailed portrait of mid-century Lima.
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Format: Paperback
Published: 1984, Picador
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is a brilliantly comic and semi-autobiographical novel set in 1950s Lima, Peru, by Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa. The narrative interweaves two captivating storylines: the romance between eighteen-year-old Marito, a young radio journalist with literary ambitions, and his divorced aunt-by-marriage Julia, who is fourteen years his senior. Running parallel to this charming love story are the wildly melodramatic and increasingly unhinged radio soap operas written by the eccentric Bolivian scriptwriter Pedro Camacho, whose fictional plots hilariously begin to bleed into one another. Written with sharp wit and narrative ingenuity, the novel illustrates the fine line between art and life, passion and obsession, reality and fiction. A masterwork of Latin American literature, it stands as one of Vargas Llosa's most accessible and entertaining works, drawing on his own youthful experiences in a vibrant, richly detailed portrait of mid-century Lima.