These may sound like dry technical issues, but Mr. He is excellent, however, on more fundamental matters, on the handling of time in the novel (he differentiates four types of Flaubertian time-singular, circular, immobile and imaginary) and on the constantly shifting narrative viewpoint. John Gross, also reviewing the Helen Lane translation for The New York Times, praised the book's treatment of Flaubert's technical mastery: Vargas Llosa hunched over this masterpiece like some vintage car freak over the engine of a Lagonda. Flaubertistes will instantly set it alongside Francis Steegmuller's classic Flaubert and Madame Bovary students of literature who want to know how a novel works could not be better advised than to listen to Mr. It is the best single account of the novel I know. Most of The Perpetual Orgy, at last available in Helen Lane's elegant translation, is a discussion of the genesis, execution, structure and technique of Madame Bovary. First published in Spanish in 1975, the book was translated into English in 1986 by Helen Lane. The first part of Flaubert's novel has an autobiographical tone Vargas Llosa then goes on to examine the structure and meaning of Madame Bovary as well as its role in the development of the modern novel. Flaubert y Madame Bovary, 1975) is a book-length essay by the Nobel Prize–winning Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa which examines Flaubert's 1857 book Madame Bovary as the first modern novel.
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