An author in this novel kills off many of his characters in a fire after suffering burnout. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel, whose title characters are the hack author Pedro Camacho and a relative of the protagonist whom he attempts to marry.
ANSWER: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter [or La tía Julia y el escribidor]
[10e] In Mario Vargas Llosa’s (“VAR-gas YOH-sah’s”) novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Camacho writes soap operas for this broadcast medium. A 1938 broadcast of a version of The War of the Worlds via this medium incited mass panic.
ANSWER: radio plays [or radio dramas]
[10h] In one of Camacho’s dramas, a policeman dies in a fire before later reappearing and undergoing this action. This action partly titles a story in which Esteban’s body prompts villagers to make some massive clothes.
ANSWER: drowning [or ahogado or ahogar; accept “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” or “El ahogado más hermoso del mundo”; prompt on shipwrecks] (“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” is by Gabriel García Márquez.)
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