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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

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Its pacing reminds me a bit of Rossini’s William Tell Overture – starts off quietly, the race begins, the crashing storm and then peace reigns as everything settles down. The two story lines are intertwined. Both start out as reasonably restrained narratives, but as the radio serials progress they get wilder and wilder as the scriptwriter begins to go mad, and eventually kills off all his characters in a crescendo of explosion, fire and earthquake. The lovers meet secretly to avoid a scandal in their upper-class family, for incest is deemed a social evil, even though Julia is not Mario's blood relative; she is the sister of his uncle's wife. They hold hands, rub knees, sit in the last If you don’t get any pleasure out of reading this book, forget about reading and take up tiddlywinks!

Ma forse la parte che più restituisce l'aria coloratissima e piena di energia che si respira in Sudamerica è proprio quella che riguarda l'amore per l'arte. Per far fronte ad un problema commerciale, una emittente radiofonica peruviana assume Pedro Camacho, boliviano autore professionista di romanzi radiofonici. L'arrivo di questo strambo personaggio, che dedica tutte le sue forze alla forsennata produzione di intrighi sempre più irrealistici ma sempre più spettacolari, cambia la vita del Perù ma soprattutto quella dell'autore a tutti i livelli, sia nei ricordi che nella costruzione che li traduce in romanzo.

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Dumneata crezi că aș mai putea face ceea ce fac dacă femeile m-ar stoarce de vlagă? mă dojeni el, cu dezgust în glas. Crezi că se pot zămisli copii și povestiri în același timp? Că ar putea cineva să născocească, să dea frâu imaginației, dacă trăiește sub amenințarea sifilisului? Femeia și arta se exclud, prietene. În fiecare vagin e înmormântat un artist. Mai are oare vreun haz să procreezi? N-o fac și câinii, păianjenii și pisicile? Trebuie să fim originali, amice!”Llosa e original în construcția romanului său. Printre capitolele despre idila cu mătușa Julia (îi spune mereu mătușa, ceea ce e un pic ciudat) și treburile de la radio, include capitole – episoade – din creațiile radiofonice ale lui Camacho. Toate acestea par episoade pilot ale unor noi seriale, în care sunt introduse personajele, destul de pitorești, prin descrieri detaliate despre starea lor socială și talentele lor speciale – care explică și alegerea lor ca personaje –, despre familiile lor, despre cum au ajuns unde au ajuns. La un moment dat, dacă nu chiar inițial, personajul principal ajunge în „floare vârstei”, la 50 de ani, care, coincidență!, e chiar vârsta scriitorului. Toate sunt scrise bine (mult prea bine, având în vedere că Mario cel tânăr îl plasează pe Camacho doar cu o treaptă deasupra analfabeților!), cu un vocabular foarte diversificat și original, și se termină, inevitabil, într-un punct culminant, care să te facă să-ți programezi vizita lângă aparatul de radio și în ziua următoare. Oare ce se va întâmpla? Oare va apăsa sau nu pe trăgaci?! Inevitabil, din când în când, scribul introducere ironii și răutăți la adresa argentinienilor. Faulkner, Joyce, while Pedro Camacho was very nearly illiterate? ... I felt sad and upset. It was becoming clearer and clearer to me each day that the only thing I wanted to be in life was a writer. ... I didn't want in the least urn:oclc:872618977 Scandate 20100408194142 Scanner scribe12.sfdowntown.archive.org Scanningcenter sfdowntown Source bypassing the censorship of reason.'' Camacho replies, ''Our mestizo Latin American brains can give birth to better things than those Frogs.'' ND now for something entirely different from Latin America: a comic novel that is genuinely funny. This screwball fantasy - interwoven with a

It would not exaggerate to say that the novel is anchored in the character of Pedro Camacho round which Llosa weaves the semi-autobiographical story through Marito’s struggles as an aspiring writer who falls in love in an odd way, with Julia who is his aunt by marriage and thirteen years his senior, a divorcee. Reminiscing on old days, Marito relates his struggles to make sense of his life at the time when he and Aunt Julia had challenged a big social taboo with their romance. Even at its most intense, they both know that their amorous relationship is a passing fantasy which is fated ab initio even if they defy their families and get married. Still, the cer I do not know if a conjunction had ever been more inappropriately employed to strike out a novel’s title as in this case. When we hear Adam and Eve, we think of some association between them even if we don’t know anything more about them. Conjunctive titles indicate a connection between the two subjects. There is no such association between Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter save their separate links with Marito. Except for a small and inconsequential meeting between them the two main characters of the novel keep orbiting in their separate spheres, which means the two narrative streams are held together tenuously. Did you know the 1990 film Tune in Tomorrow starring Keanu Reeves, Peter Falk and Barbara Hershey is based on the novel? I'm generally not a moviegoer but I did catch this one, the funniest movie I've ever seen. row of the movies so they can kiss and coo. They eventually get on to some serious improprieties, but only when marriage is imminent, and what they do then is rather chastely told.Incredibly, this is the first of Vargas Llosa’s books that I’ve read and it's gloriously enjoyable. I hadn’t imagined him as great writer of comedy, but Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is a marvellous comic novel. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is a love comedy… And there is a triangle – a boy, his aunt and a middle-aged scriptwriter… However it isn’t a love triangle… Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter ( Spanish: La tía Julia y el escribidor) is the seventh novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa. It was published by Seix Barral, S.A., Spain, in 1977. Infatti la storia è divisa in due parti distinte (a capitoli alternati) per evidenziare la natura doppia dell'argomento: da una parte si racconta dell'innamoramento del giovane Marito Varguitas per sua zia Julia, e della sua dura ma entusiastica lotta per arrivare a poterla sposare nonostante fosse vedova di suo zio; dall'altra viene approfondita la vocazione letteraria dello spiantato giovane peruviano (lavoratore precario come curatore di bollettini) paragonandola con il grande successo dei romanzi radiofonici di Pedro Camacho, che arriva a catalizzare l'attenzione di una intera nazione sfornando storie sempre più incredibili (la cui sinossi viene presentata con un deliberato dilettantismo ai limiti del comico nei capitoli dispari del romanzo).

Il risultato è un romanzo divertente, fresco, tenero, strano, fantasioso, colorato. Che però non si limita a divertire, ma pare anche farsi domande sull'arte stessa del romanzo. Mario vorrebbe scrivere, ma ci riesce solo quando inizia a vivere e a godere la sua vita; lo scribacchino invece, completamente immerso solo nella scrittura, perde progressivamente il lume della ragione e fa una miseranda fine. The two become marvelous fictional creations in a novel that was originally conceived as half-autobiographical, and elements of autobiography still cling to it. The narrator is a young man named Mario, sometimes called Varguitas, which is a diminutiveIt took me a while to understand exactly what was going on and maybe the novel is a bit longer than it needed to be, but in the end I really enjoyed it. The GR blurb calls it masterfully done, hilarious, mischievous, and a classic, and I agree. The result: a comic novel that's both highly polished literature and fun, fun, fun, a comic novel that's actually funny. In alternating chapters the book interweaves the story of Marito's life with the ever-more-fevered tales of Pedro Camacho, so it’s also like a collection of short stories. We are also treated to the plots of a few short stories written by the aspiring author.

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