The Perpetual Orgy

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe 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.