The Perpetual Orgy
Vargas Llosa, Mario / Bargas, Llosa Mario
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.