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From: rew@cbosgd.UUCP (Bob Warren)
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Subject: Re: AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPT-WRITER by Vargas Llosa
Message-ID: <1814@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 15:11:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 15:11:16 1986
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Summary: There is more than one plot here...

In article <1649@mtgzz.UUCP>, ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) writes:
> 	    AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER by Mario Vargas Llosa
>        ...The plot revolves around Mario's infatuation with his Aunt (by
> marriage) Julia.  The fact that she is much older than he, and divorced,
> scandalizes the family.  As a comic novel, it's fairly low-key...

I read and enjoyed 'Aunt Julia...', and I must protest the characterization
of this book as one revolving around a December/May romance.  In fact,
there is a much more interesting plot going on simultaneously--in which
a soap opera scriptwriter gradually goes insane and in the process jumbles the
plots of the half-dozen radio dramas he is attempting to write.  I
enjoyed the interplay between the 'real-life' drama of the romance with
the soap opera 'realities' gradually disintegrating and re-forming into
bizarre combinations.  This book has some hilarious scenes, both within
and outside of the soap operas.  And if you're from Argentina, the
whole book should be ROT-13.

Bob Warren
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