La Orgía Perpetua

In this brilliant essay, Vargas Llosa examines Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, who is considered the founder of the modern novel and an indisputable influence on future novelists. The first part of this book is autobiographical in tone; the second comprises an exhaustive analysis on the structure and significance of Madame Bovary, the third traces the relation between Flaubert's work with the history and growth of modern literature's most representative genre ?the novel.