The contemporary Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa devoted his book, The Perpetual Orgy, to this 19th century writer. One of this author's short stories is about a poor peasant girl who at the moment of her death sees her beloved pet parrot as the Holy Spirit waiting for 
The contemporary Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa devoted his book, The Perpetual Orgy, to this 19th century writer. One of this author's short stories is about a poor peasant girl who at the moment of her death sees her beloved pet parrot as the Holy Spirit waiting for her in heaven. That story, "A Simple Heart" along with "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitalier " and "Herodias" make up this Frenchman's Trois Contes, or Three Stories. Other works of his include the posthumously published Bouvard et Pecuchet and a historical novel about Carthage, Salammbo. FTP name this influential Realist writer of A Sentimental Education and Madame Bovary.
The contemporary Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa devoted his book, The Perpetual Orgy, to this 19th century writer.
Gustave {Flaubert}