When All Your Stories Get Scrambled
Reviewing Mario Vargas Llosa’s Classic Comic Novel ‘Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter’
Life presents a rough draft you never get to revise. So what happens when your story spins off in a direction you never imagined or, worse, becomes utterly unintelligible? Peruvian literary giant Mario Vargas Llosa explores the problem in his 1977 comic novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, first available in English in 1983.
It’s the early 1950s, and M…
