The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Helen Lane, Mario Vargas Llosa

The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary

Helen Lane, Mario Vargas Llosa

256 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction dark reflective slow-paced
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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 hist...

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