The Perpetual Orgy
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Book Overview
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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0374520623
ISBN13:9780374520625
Release Date:September 1987
Publisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.82 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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literature is one perpetual orgy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
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)
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