title: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel
author:  Mario Vargas Llosa 
description: Comic novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published as <i>La tia Julia y el escribidor</i> in 1977. Vargas Llosa uses counterpoint, paradox, and satire to explore the creative process of writing and its relation to the daily lives of writers. One half of the story is an autobiographical account of an aspiring writer named Marito Varguitas, who falls in love with Julia, the divorced sister-in-law of his Uncle Lucho. Marito's success at writing and romance contrasts with the fortunes of Pedro Camacho, the protagonist of the other half of the story, who is a devoted but declining author of radio soap operas. -- <i><a href="/exec/obidos/isbn=0877790426/${0}">The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature</a></i>
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  Mario Vargas Llosa is the author of sixteen novels, most recently _The Bad
  Girl_. He received the PEN/Nabokov Award in 2002 and lives in London.
  
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   _To EUCLIDES DA CUNHA_
  
   _in the other world;_
  
   _and, in this world,_
  
   _to NÉLIDA PIÑON_
  
   _The Antichrist was born_
  
   _To govern Brazil_
  
   _But the Counselor is come_
  
   _To deliver us from him_.
  
   **Contents**
  
   **Part I**
  
   _[Chapter I]_
  
   _[Chapter II]_
  
   _[Chapter III]_
  
   _[Chapter IV]_
  
   _[Chapter V]_
  
   _[Chapter VI]_
  
   _[Chapter VII]_
  
   **Part II**
  
   _[Chapter I]_
  
   _[Chapter II]_
  
   _[Chapter III]_
  
   **Part III**
  
   _[Chapter I]_
  
   _[Chapter II]_
  
   _[Chapter III]_
  
   _[Chapter IV]_
  
   _[Chapter V]_
  
   _[Chapter VI]_
  
   _[Chapter VII]_
  
   **Part IV**
  
   _[Chapter I]_
  
   _[Chapter II]_
  
   _[Chapter III]_
  
   _[Chapter IV]_
  
   _[Chapter V]_
  
   _[Chapter VI]_
  
   **I**
  
  **[I]**
  
  The man was tall and so thin he seemed to be always in profile. He was dark-
  skinned and rawboned, and his eyes burned