Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, originally written in Spanish as La tía Julia y el escribidor. It was published by Editorial Seix Barral, S.A., Spain, in 1977. it is the story of an 18 year old student , Mario, who falls for 32 year old divorcee Aunt Julia. It is based on the author's real life experience. Mario (an aspiring writer) works at a radio station that broadcasts, each day, up to a half-dozen serials (a close relation to North American soap operas). At the same time that the author meets his Aunt Julia the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a local scriptwriter to write the serials. The novel chronicles the script writer's rise and fall in tandem with the protagonist's affair and includes descriptions of the serials that that the station broadcasts. The result is a wonderful description of both the practical and creative aspects of writing.

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