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ISBN: 0312427247

ISBN13: 9780312427245

La tía Julia y el escribidor

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By Mario Vargas Llosa

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Book Overview

Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, 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 hilarious, mischievous, and masterful, a classic named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0312427247

ISBN13:9780312427245

Release Date:October 2007

Publisher:Picador USA

Length:384 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"

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Rated 5 stars
Brilliant and Hilarious

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 22, 2003

This is one of those novels where every character is so perfectly drawn that you instantly have a complete picture of them. And they are all completely lovable and laughable. One of the most delightful books I have ever read. Genius.

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What Little Vargas said

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 8, 2003

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is without a doubt Mario Vargas-Llosa's most entertaining book, intelligent without being difficult and hilarious without being patronizing. Some of the most subtle points are lost in translation -- "escribidor" in the original title, for example, has a sense of someone simply taking dictation or producing a text by rote compared to the word "scriptwriter" used in the English language version...

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Julia Urquidi y MVLL "El Escritor"

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 27, 2003

MVLL es considerado actualmente como uno de los escritores más representativos de la Literatura moderna y el eterno candidato a ganar el Premio Nobel. Su estilo ha innovado la narrativa y, valiéndose de técnicas ingeniosas, le ha proporcionado un dinamismo especial a sus novelas, favoreciendo su lectura fluida y canivalesca -a pesar de los pequeños espacios de tiempo que me permiten leer, he podido devorar a cada uno de sus...

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impresionante

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 22, 2001

La tía Julia y el escribidor. Mario Vargas LlosaEsta novela es impresionante. En el principio parece una obra liviana de vargas Llosa pero en la medida en que se avanza uno ve en este libro una gran obra que se va contando de una manera tan natural que resulta fácil terminar las 464 paginas del libro en escasos días y sin sentir el menor cansancio o fatiga. Las historias principales se desarrollan en la juventud del autor...

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A great comedy

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 16, 1999

Vargas Llosa is not always a funny writer, but in Aunt Julia the excesses of the incredible Chamaco (the scriptwriter in the title) will have you laugh out aloud (not just smile as most books do) wishing you had some Argentinian friends to abuse them for fun in inimitable Chamaco style. The more realstic part of the book just perfectly balances the wild chapters of radiophonic soap frenzy and make their pulp overblown jokes...

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