The Bad Girl
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Mario Vargas Llosa |
|---|---|
| Original title | Travesuras de la niña mala |
| Translator | Edith Grossman |
| Publisher | Alfaguara |
Published in English | October 15, 2007 |
The Bad Girl (Spanish:Travesuras de la niña mala, transl. The mischief of the bad girl) 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. 15 September 2007. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- ^ "The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa". Publishers Weekly. 20 August 2007. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ "The Bad Girl". Booklist. 15 October 2007. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- ^ Harrison 2007
References
- Harrison, Kathryn (14 October 2007), "Dangerous Obsession", The New York Times, retrieved 14 April 2008.
