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La tia Julia y el escribidor/ Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
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This comic novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, which merges reality with fantasy, is about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion. Sophisticated, divorced Aunt Julia is looking for a new mate who can support her in a lavish lifestyle. Instead, she falls into an affair with ...
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(This comic novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, which merges reality with fantasy, is about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion. Sophisticated, divorced Aunt Julia is looking for a new mate who can support her in a lavish lifestyle. Instead, she falls into an affair with her nephew, shocking her family and community. Description in Spanish: ''El genero novelesco no ha nacido para contar verdades, estas, al pasar a la ficcion, se vuelven siempre mentiras''. Ya en el titulo de esta novela de Mario Vargas Llosa, publicada en 1977, se recoge la doble historia en que se vertebra su argumento: por un lado, la relacion amorosa del joven escritor Varguitas con una mujer de su familia mayor que el, la tia Julia; y por otro, la desaforada presencia del folletinista Pedro Camacho en la misma emisora de radio donde Varguitas trabaja. La noble pasión amorosa entre la tia Julia y el aprendiz de novelista, que la sociedad limena de los anos cincuenta trata por todos los medios de impedir, se combina en esta novela de Vargas Llosa con las narraciones truculentas del folletinista de las ondas. El contrapunto d

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