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%% * GoldDigger: Bad Girl's m.o.

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%% * GoldDigger: The central premise of the series. Even though the Bad Girl's m.o.Girl proves to be intelligent and cunning, she decided to marry her way out of poverty instead.
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* FemmeFatale: The Bad Girl. To a tee.
* GayParee: Takes place in Paris for the most part.
* GoldDigger: Bad Girl's m.o.
* HappilyFailedSuicide: Ricardo tries to jump off a bridge when he is stopped by a ''clochart''.

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%% * FemmeFatale: The Bad Girl. To a tee.
%% * GayParee: Takes place in Paris for the most part.
%% * GoldDigger: Bad Girl's m.o.
%% * HappilyFailedSuicide: Ricardo tries to jump off a bridge when he is stopped by a ''clochart''.



* YouCantGoHomeAgain: For both our main characters.

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%% * YouCantGoHomeAgain: For both our main characters.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Having enough of her schemes to get easy money, the Bad Girl finally decides to settle with Ricardo. Unfortunately she gets a terminal illness and dies, not before encouraging Ricardo to write a book about their story.]]



* IHaveManyNames: Lily, Comrade Arlette, Madame Robert Arnoux, Mrs. Richardson, Kuriko and [[spoiler: Madame Ricardo Somocurcio]]. After the first two name changes Ricardo gives up and calls her Bad Girl whenever they meet, knowing whatever name she gives him is false anyway. At the end her real name is revealed to be [[spoiler: Otilia]]

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* IHaveManyNames: Lily, Comrade Arlette, Madame Robert Arnoux, Mrs. Richardson, Kuriko and [[spoiler: Madame Ricardo Somocurcio]]. After the first two name changes Ricardo gives up and calls her Bad Girl whenever they meet, knowing whatever name she gives him is false anyway. At the end her real name is revealed to be [[spoiler: Otilia]]Otilia]].
* PetTheDog: The Bad Girl is callous and willing to backstab everyone for the sake of money, but she's very sweet towards Yilal, the son of the Russian couple that Ricardo befriends.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Many times over.
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''The Bad Girl'' (originally in Spanish as ''Travesuras de la niña mala'') is a 2006 novel by Peruvian author and {{Nobel Prize|In Literature}} winner Creator/MarioVargasLlosa.

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''The Bad Girl'' (originally in Spanish as ''Travesuras de la niña mala'') is a 2006 novel by Peruvian author and {{Nobel UsefulNotes/{{Nobel Prize|In Literature}} winner Creator/MarioVargasLlosa.
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* HappilyFailedSuicide: Ricardo tries to jump off a bridge when he is stopped by a 'clochart'.

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* HappilyFailedSuicide: Ricardo tries to jump off a bridge when he is stopped by a 'clochart'.''clochart''.
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* HappilyFailedSuicide: Ricardo tries to jump off a bridge when he is stopped by a 'clochart'.
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* TwiceToldTale: The book is, basically, a rewrite of Creator/GustaveFlaubert's ''Literature/MadameBovary''.

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* TwiceToldTale: The book is, basically, in some ways, a rewrite of Creator/GustaveFlaubert's ''Literature/MadameBovary''.
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''The Bad Girl'' (originally in Spanish as ''Travesuras de la niña mala'') is a 2006 novel by Peruvian author and {{Nobel Prize|In Literature}} winner MarioVargasLlosa.

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''The Bad Girl'' (originally in Spanish as ''Travesuras de la niña mala'') is a 2006 novel by Peruvian author and {{Nobel Prize|In Literature}} winner MarioVargasLlosa.Creator/MarioVargasLlosa.
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* TwiceToldTale: The book is, basically, a rewrite of Gustave Flaubert's ''Literature/MadameBovary''.

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* TwiceToldTale: The book is, basically, a rewrite of Gustave Flaubert's Creator/GustaveFlaubert's ''Literature/MadameBovary''.
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->'''The Bad Girl:''' I've never said 'I love you, I adore you' and really meant it. Never. I've only said those things as a lie. Because I've never loved anybody, Ricardito.

''The Bad Girl'' (originally in Spanish as ''Travesuras de la niña mala'') is a 2006 novel by Peruvian author and {{Nobel Prize|In Literature}} winner MarioVargasLlosa.

In the summer of 1950 as a teenager, Ricardo Somocurcio falls in love with the vivacious blonde girl in Miraflores Peru who says she and her sister are from Chile and that her name is Lily. By the end of the summer she is found out as a fraud and disappears just as quickly as she came. Years pass and after graduating from law school, Ricardo goes to live out his dream of living in Paris and runs into the same girl again, this time as a Peruvian revolutionary named Comrade Arlette. She leaves for guerrilla training in Cuba, promising to come back to him, but never does.

While working as an interpreter Ricardo runs into "the bad girl", the only name he can really give to her, this time as the wife of a French diplomat name Madame Robert Arnoux. As Mrs. Richardson, the Mexican wife of an English horse breeder, as Kuriko, the mistress of a sadistic Japanese business man, again and again Ricardo finds her as she changes men and identities, but no matter how cruel she is or how many times she hurts him, he is doomed to love the bad girl forever.

The novel tells the story of the love affair between Ricardo and his "Bad Girl" while also including information about the history of Peru as seen through the eyes of Ricardo and the transformations happening in Europe spanning 40 years.
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!!The novel contains examples of:

* ContrivedCoincidence: Ricardo runs into The Bad Girl in some highly improbable ways.
* FemmeFatale: The Bad Girl. To a tee.
* GayParee: Takes place in Paris for the most part.
* GoldDigger: Bad Girl's m.o.
* IHaveManyNames: Lily, Comrade Arlette, Madame Robert Arnoux, Mrs. Richardson, Kuriko and [[spoiler: Madame Ricardo Somocurcio]]. After the first two name changes Ricardo gives up and calls her Bad Girl whenever they meet, knowing whatever name she gives him is false anyway. At the end her real name is revealed to be [[spoiler: Otilia]]
* TwiceToldTale: The book is, basically, a rewrite of Gustave Flaubert's ''Literature/MadameBovary''.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: For both our main characters.
* YourCheatingHeart: Many times over.
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