Mario Vargas Llosa
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| Title | : | Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter |
| Author | : | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 374 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1995 by Penguin Books (first published 1977) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Latin American. Nobel Prize. European Literature. Spanish Literature |
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Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima 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.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 scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall. Pedro chooses young Marito to be his confidant as he slowly goes insane.
Interweaving the story of Marito's life with the ever-more-fevered tales of Pedro Camacho, Vargas Llosa's novel is masterfully done, hilarious, mischievous, a classic named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review.
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| Original Title: | La tía Julia y el escribidor |
| ISBN: | 0140248927 (ISBN13: 9780140248920) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Pedro Camacho, Mario, Julia, Javier |
| Setting: | Lima(Peru) Peru (Perú)(Peru) |
| Literary Awards: | Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1980) |
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Ratings: 3.92 From 15338 Users | 974 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
I found myself underwhelmed by Borges and Marquez; their brand of "magical realism" turned out not to be my cuppa. I found myself much, much happier with Mario Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. The book's chapters alternate between young "Marito's" first person account of his love affair with his much older in-law Aunt Julia, and the third-person tales of "the scriptwriter" of a popular radio soap opera. I found both parts equally engaging. Given that "Marito" is a diminutive forHe was in the prime of his life, his fifties, and his distinguishing traits - a broad forehead, an aquiline nose, a penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.Genius and insanity may or may not have a close concordat but stories of this kind never fail to fascinate me; and even more when they are subjected to satire, as Llosa does with great effect in this case. Pedro Camacho the man behind the metrically balanced name is an unbalanced maverick of singular mind to whom the only
The singly most promising and disappointing book I've ever read. Fraught with genius and absolute failure. The episodic serial scripts which comprise every other chapter are astounding in their creativity and execution. When Mr. Llosa tries to render a real(and semi-autobiographical) relationship with his Aunt Julia his skills crumble into sophomoric platitudes that reveal his inability to actually love a woman romantically (whether it be in his own life or as a writer.)There are so many
My first novel read by Vargas Llosa and loved it. He recently won the Nobel Prize in Literature and whom I heard interviewed by Elenor Wachtel (CBC Podcast) and just by this book alone I can see why he won.This is one of his earlier works and his writing style is lucid, visual and an ease to read (in translation). The story follows an 18-year old writer named Varaguitas working for a Peruvian radio programme editing the news in the late 1950s. Whike studying law and to make some extra cash, the
If you are an Indian, you probably know how terrible are the Indian daily soaps. And being forced at times to suffer my senses with them, I have at times wondered about their scriptwriters. What kind of brains and lives they would have? To be able to conceive something so consciously. I know actors of daily soaps work an awful lot and, given that scriptwriters don't make as much - they are probably working on multiple soaps. Now if like me, you believe that the quantity and quality of works
If you should happen to read it-just ignore me. Ignore all Ive written about. Its not a real review. In fact, this is not review at all.Its been some years I read Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter for the first time. It was at hospital, after my surgery, waiting for.. Oh, I didnt know what I was waiting for. Anyway, I was lying in bed like some miserable Lazarius, looking like shit and feeling the same, in a strange city, with no one to talk. Ok, it doesnt matter. So, I was lying and thinking, and
Marito is a young law student living in Lima, Peru, making a living at a local radio station by plagiarizing from the newspapers for the hourly newscasts. When the owners of the station hire the famous Bolivian radio personality Pedro Camacho, Marito is fascinated by the dwarf-like scriptwriter and actor, who can work at a manic pace and produce scripts for six different radio serials every day effortlessly, though it becomes apparent from the content of the serials as the months go by that
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