After running over a girl with a truck, a character in this novel suffers horrific nightmares in which he hacks his newborn daughter to pieces.
A character in this novel abandons his career as a literary scholar in style, by burning his drawer full of index cards on every academic subject. After running over a girl with a truck, a character in this novel suffers horrific nightmares in which he hacks his newborn daughter to pieces. At the end of this novel, characters such as the accused rapist Gumercindo Tello  (TAY-yoh)  are killed off in a huge fire as their (*) creator struggles to keep up with the workload at Radio Panamericana. The odd chapters of this novel describe its protagonist's affair with the sister-in-law of his uncle, whereas the even chapters detail the increasingly unhinged soap opera plots concocted by Pedro Camacho. For 10 points, name this novel about a radio station writer by Mario Vargas Llosa.
A character in this novel abandons his career as a literary scholar in style, by burning his drawer full of index cards on every academic subject.
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter  [or  La  tía Julia y el escribidor ]