The Perpetual Orgy Flaubert and Madame Bovary |
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Author:
| Vargas Llosa, Mario |
Translator:
| Lane, Helen |
ISBN: | 978-0-374-52062-5 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1987 |
Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources; the third situates it in literary history. Vargas Llosa's first work of non-fiction will send the reader back to Flaubert's masterpiece with renewed interest.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources; the third situates it in literary history. Vargas Llosa's first work of non-fiction will send the reader back to Flaubert's masterpiece with renewed interest.