The Bad Girl
novel by Vargas Llosa
Also known as: “Travesuras de la niña mala”
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Travesuras de la niña mala (2006), translated as The Bad Girl, is a novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The novel is set in Paris during the 1950s and 1960s, a period when Vargas Llosa himself lived there as part of a Latin American expatriate community. The plot is influenced by French novelist Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. While The Time of the Hero is considered Vargas Llosa's most famous book, The Bad Girl is one of his later works that explores themes of love and obsession.12
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