Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Comic realism
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: Lima, Peru
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Metafiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, Love or romance, Marriage, South America or South Americans, Peru or Peruvians, Radio or radio broadcasting
- Locales: Lima, Peru
Characters Discussed
Mario, also called Varguitas (vahr-gew-EE-tahs) and Marito (mah-REE-toh), the narrator-protagonist, a confident college student who is underemployed as a radio newswriter. He is waiting for the chance to devote himself completely to a literary life, preferably in Paris. Hardly anything distinguishes Mario—indiscriminately and purposely called by the author’s nicknames as a young man—from the real Mario Vargas Llosa. Mario comically and romantically serializes his courtship of Julia, an aunt by his uncle’s marriage, and his apprenticeship as a writer...
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