In a novel by Daniel Alarcón, Norma creates works for this medium to rally a war-torn country whose villages have been renamed after numbers. For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify this medium. The even chapters of a novel comprise progressively more deranged works for this medium that intersect with the life of the law student Mario, who falls in love with an older divorcee.
ANSWER: radio [accept radionovelas; accept Lost City Radio; prompt on soap operas or scripts or plays or novelas by asking “what medium are they performed in?”]
[10e] This Peruvian and compatriot of Alarcón interweaved Pedro Camacho’s radio soap operas throughout his novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
ANSWER: Mario Vargas Llosa [prompt on Vargas or Llosa]
[10h] An episode of Alarcón’s show Radio Ambulante recounts how this author attended the World Congress of Sorcery. The protagonist of a novella by this author learns facts from a Clock Radio after taking up a job as a typist, and visits a fortune teller.
ANSWER: Clarice Lispector (The novella is The Hour of the Star.)
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