The Perpetual Orgy -- Flaubert & Madame Bovary
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 1987. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 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..... More