The Bad Girl

"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). [Harvnb|Harrison|2007] 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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*citation|last=Harrison|first=Kathryn|title=Dangerous Obsession|url= http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/books/review/Harrison.html|newspaper=The New York Times |date= October 14, 2007|year=2007 |accessdate=2008-04-14.