The Bad Girl

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The Bad Girl, originally published in 2006 in Spanish as Travesuras de la niña mala, is a novel by Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa.

Journalist Kathryn Harrison approvingly argues that the book is a rewrite (rather than simply a recycling) of the French modernist Gustave Flaubert's classic novel Madame Bovary (1856).[1] 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 both were teenagers.

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  1. ^ Harrison 2007

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Works by Mario Vargas Llosa
Novels:
The Time of the Hero (1963) · The Green House (1966) · Conversation in the Cathedral (1969) · Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973) · Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) · The War of the End of the World (1981) · The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) · Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1986) · The Storyteller (1987) · In Praise of the Stepmother (1988) · Death in the Andes (1993) · The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997) · The Feast of the Goat (2000) · The Way to Paradise (2003) · The Bad Girl (2006)
Short story collections:
The Cubs and Other Stories (1959)
Essays:
Essay collections:
A Writer's Reality (1991) · A Fish in the Water (1993) · Making Waves (1997) · Letters to a Young Novelist (1997) · The Language of Passion (2001)
Languages