num_pages: 256
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary
titlecomplete: The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary
genres: Essays, Nobel Prize, Literature, Criticism, Classics, Nonfiction, Writing, Literary Criticism, Books About Books, France
ratings_count: 693
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux