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The perpetual orgy; Flaubert and Madame Bovary / Mario Vargas Llosa

By:

Vargas Llosa, Mario, (1936-)

Contributor(s):

Lane, Helen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1986Description: 239 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

374230773

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS 864 VAR

LOC classification:

PQ8498.32.A65 H4713 2015

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 864 VAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		025806

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.

Translated from the Spanish to English.

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