Aunt Julia and the feather

Varguitas, an eighteen-year-old man, wants to be a writer on fire and water, but for the time being, he lives his life as a news editor. For literature, only love is of measurable importance, and the young writer naturally longs for great, scorching love, while also mocking such romance. Whether or not he falls in love with Julia 's aunt, who is much older than him, is not a secret - and above all romantic - relationship, this boldly spicy melodrama is linked to the discovery and amazing success of the Bolivian kitten producer, who writes radio soap operas with a brilliant sense of genius. Particularly interesting about the novel, which sparkles with dazzling style parodies, is that the author modeled Varguita - that is, "little Vargas" - on his former self. (And the real Aunt Julia then wrote her own version of their love.) Aunt Julia and the feather first appeared in 1977, two years after the then world-famous Peruvian writer published a large study of Flaubert entitled "The Eternal Orgy." . Flaubert’s influence can also be felt in the novel that was born later - it’s a kind of new School of Emotions with spicy Latin American flavors.