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.
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