Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Mario Vargas Llosa's novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is set in Peru during the 1950s and follows the story of an 18-year-old student who falls in love with a 32-year-old divorcee. The novel is based on the author's own life experience and alternates between the protagonist's account of his life and episodes of an eccentric Bolivian scriptwriter's serials, which become increasingly unhinged as the novel progresses. The scriptwriter's rise and fall in popularity parallels the protagonist's affair.learn more on wikipedia