La tía Julia y el escribidor, ¿simbiosis o contraste?
La tía Julia y el escribidor, Symbiosis or Contrast?

Summary/Abstract: In La civilización del espectáculo, Mario Vargas Llosa distinguishes between highbrow culture and lowbrow culture. To the first category belong authors as T.S. Eliot or James Joyce and to the second category Ernest Hemingway or Walt Whitman. The difference between these two categories is that the second one is accesible for all type of public. If we relate this idea with the statement expressed in La tía Julia y el escribidor regarding what low literature and high literature mean, we can easily notice a “breach” inside the novel: the chapters dedicated to the love history between Varguitas and Julia would be an example of high literature while the chapters dedicated to the production of Pedro Camacho would be related to low literature. But, at the same time, Vargas Llosa mamages to rebuilt the unity of the novel spreading in the even chapters details that refer to the history from the odd chapters.

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