The Perpetual Orgy

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Book Overview

En este brillante ensayo, Mario Vargas Llosa analiza una de las novelas que han marcado su carrera como escritor: Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert, considerado el fundador de la novela moderna y uno... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374230773
• ISBN13: 9780374230777
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

literature is one perpetual orgy

This book is about Mme Bovary, Flaubert and writing fiction. What is fiction, who is an author and why does he write? " 'The race of gladiators is not dead; every artist is one. He amuses the public with his agonies'. The truth is that, by writing about them, 'agonies' are mitigated; literature exorcises them or makes them endurable." (p. 89)