| The Perpetual Orgy Contributor(s): Llosa, Mario Vargas (Author), Lane, Helen (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374520623 ISBN-13: 9780374520625 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
| Dewey: 843.009 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6" W x 9" (0.84 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Llosa, Mario Vargas: - Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include The Storyteller, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, In Praise of the Stepmother, The Bad Girl, Conversation in the Cathedral, The Way to Paradise, and The War of the End of the World. He lives in London.Lane, Helen: - Helen Lane contributed to In Praise of the Stepmother from Picador. |