Mario Vargas Llosa, a versatile and influential writer, explored realism and social issues in his vast body of work.

In 1975, MVLL published The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary, an essay that was part ... a monomaniac who could only explain himself through books, his own books and those of others.

I appropriated the famous Flaubertian motto “Madame Bovary, c'est moi” and turned ... I would never have even noticed before. For this book, I consulted dozens of papers and manuals on ...

Q. Is it primarily a book about mental illness? A. I'd say it was a tragic love story. I couldn't help being aware, and this is going to sound full of hubris, of Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina ...

(On this insoluble issue see Julian Barnes’s magnificent essay on the perils of translating Madame Bovary in the London Review of Books of 18 November 2010, where you will also enjoy the distinctive ...

Nobody writes these reports from the suburban front line with quite the passion, the abrupt insights and kitchen-table candour of Helen Garner. The Spare Room is a quietly devastating book, written ...

Back to Madame Bovary,although the subject is a heavy one,it is well handled by Minnelli,and most reference books today regard it as a sadly neglected piece,which deserves a wider ...

The Cubs (1967) – First published in Spain in 1967, this book originated from a short story by Vargas ... analyzes one of the novels that shaped his career as a writer, 'Madame Bovary,' which he ...

Labelled a teen for being ‘too much,’ Madame Rouge now runs Bangkok’s most fabulous entertainment empire – where every show is sparkly, surreal and just a little unhinged. Just the way she ...

The first book from Australian author Vijay Khurana tries to explain the motives of its problematic protagonists ...

Not as incredibly busy a day as Saturday was, but you have options, mostly from the WSB West Seattle Event Calendar and ...

Variety (via GameFragger.com) brings word that Madame Web and Anyone But You star Sydney Sweeney will lead the planned big screen adaptation of the hit Hazelight Studios and EA video game ...