| Author | Mario Vargas Llosa |
|---|---|
| Title orig | Travesuras de la niña mala |
| Orig lang code | es |
| Publisher | Alfaguara |
| English pub date | October 15, 2007 |
| Translator | Edith Grossman |
The Bad Girl (Spanish: Travesuras de la niña mala, ) is a 2006 novel by Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. An English-language edition translated by Edith Grossman was published the following year.[1][2][3]
Journalist Kathryn Harrison approvingly argues that the book is a rewrite (rather than simply a recycling) of the French realist Gustave Flaubert's classic novel Madame Bovary (1856).[4] In Vargas Llosa's version, the plot relates the decades-long obsession of its narrator, a Peruvian expatriate, with a woman with whom he first fell in love when they were both teenagers.
Notes
- ^ "The Bad Girl". Kirkus Reviews. 2007-09-15. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
- ^ "The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa". Publishers Weekly. 2007-08-20. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
- ^ "The Bad Girl". Booklist. 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
- ^ Harrison 2007
References
- Harrison, Kathryn (October 14, 2007), "Dangerous Obsession", The New York Times, retrieved 2008-04-14.