Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter By Mario Vargas Llosa
Farrar, 374 pp., $16.50 What happens when Elianita, the dazzling debutante, faints at her wedding reception, and her husband, Red Antunes, is enraged to discover that she is four months pregnant by another man? What happens to the speechless “sambo,” discovered naked in a warehouse in Callao one night, when the guards take him to a garbage dump to shoot him? Or take the case of Jehovah’s Witness Gumercindo Tello, who rapes little Sarita Huanca Salaverría, protesting at the trial that his religion makes such a charge ludicrous. What happens to the girl, filled with pride and joy over her notoriety, as she listens to her father gloat over the salacious details of the
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