The novel unties itself in two clear storylines. The odd chapters are are dedicated to the story of Mario (Varguitas for friends, and yes, the autobiographical reference is clearer than my skin in the middle of July), "a sort of intellectual" who works at Radio Panamericana while he nurtures the "pa...
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 affa...
I think I have come finally across a writer of Latin American origin who far surpasses Garcia Marquez's ability in terms of engaging a reader.Aunt Julia and The Scriptwriter is a delightfully quirky tale of an illicit romance and the slow descent into madness of a brilliant scriptwriter. The main na...
I quite enjoyed the first and second books, but I feel the third kind of fell flat. The writing style felt a bit disjointed and thrown together. Another one where BookLikes imported the review from Goodreads but placed it on the incorrect book
Translated by Helen R Lane.Dedication: To Julia Urquidi Illanes, to whom this novel and I owe so muchOpening: I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharán, in Miraflores.3.5*.
Ostensibly, this book follows two concurrent plots. One being the romance between Mario and his Aunt Julia, and the other being the crazy tales that Pedro Camacho writes for a Peruvian radio station. Chapters alternate back and forth between the two.The first problem is that these two plot lines h...
This is set in 1950s Peru and concerns Mario (Varguitas), an 18 year old law student who writes news bulletins for a radio station, but wants to become a proper writer.The drivers of the plot are the two Bolivians of the title, both of whom Mario obsesses about in different ways: a workaholic writer...
Vargas Llosa , como ser humano , como persona , como hombre , es alguien que me cae profundamente MAL . Lo considero apenas un poco mejor que cualquier facho nazi y anti-nacional , chupamedia de Europa que con menos educación dice las pelotudeces que se le cantan .Sin embargo , si es un gran escrito...
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