Fu Ria to Scenario Writer Bungaku No Boken Series / Gensho Mei : La Tia Julia Y El Escribidor

[Machine Translation] A beautiful young bride suddenly falls into a coma on her wedding day. The bride's brother gets drunk and tries to kill the bridegroom. What happened between them? Sergeant Rituma, on patrol, finds an unidentified black man. Ordered to kill him, will the sergeant be able to accomplish his mission? A man obsessed with exterminating rats and his wife and children who hate him. Can the man survive the attack on his beloved family? The radio theater of Pedro Camacho, a "genius" scenario writer from Bolivia, quickly won the hearts of his listeners with his outrageous stories and authentic performances. As an aspiring novelist, I work on a prototype of a short story with Pedro's brilliance at my side. In the midst of my boring, elegant life, my aunt-in-law, Julia, appears, and I soon fall in love with her. Meanwhile, Pedro's radio theater, where he is suffering from a mental breakdown, is filled with a complicated drama of characters.... Vargas Llosa, who is well known for his profound novels such as "The Green House" and "The End of the World," uses collage and parody in this comical, semi-autobiographical slapstick novel.

結婚式当日に突然昏倒した若く美しき花嫁。泥酔して花婿を殺そうとする花嫁の兄。一体ふたりの間には何があったのか!? 巡回中のリトゥーマ軍曹が見つけた正体不明の黒人。彼の殺害を命じられた軍曹は果して任務を遂行することができるのか!?ネズミ駆除に執念を燃やす男と彼を憎む妻子たち。愛する家族に襲撃された男は果して生き延びることができるのか!? ボリビアから来た"天才"シナリオライター、ペドロ・カマーチョのラジオ劇場は、破天荒なストーリーと迫真の演出でまたたく間に聴取者の心をつかまえた。小説家志望の僕はペドロの才気を横目に、短篇の試作に励んでいる。そんな退屈で優雅な日常に義理の叔母フリアが現れ、僕はやがて彼女に恋心を抱くようになる。一方精神に変調を来したペドロのラジオ劇場は、ドラマの登場人物が錯綜しはじめて…。『緑の家』や『世界終末戦争』など、重厚な全体小説の書き手として定評のあるバルガス・リョサが、コラージュやパロディといった手法を駆使してコミカルに描いた半自伝的スラプスティック小説。