Émile Zola
1) Nana
2) Fruitfulness
3) L'Assommoir
His Masterpiece, sometimes translated as “The Work” or “The Masterpiece,” is Zola’s 14th entry in his Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we see Claude Lantier, a painter with obvious talent, struggle to leave a revolutionary mark on the art world of 19th-century Paris. The novel deftly explores the themes of genius, poverty, purity in art, art as an beaurocratic institution, obsession, and madness.
The book is notable
...Abbe Mouret’s Transgression is the fifth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific events at the end of La Conquête de Plassans, focussing this time on a remote Provençal backwater village.
The plot centres on the neurotic young priest Serge Mouret, first seen in La Conquête de Plassans, as he takes his
...The Fat and Thin, sometimes known as The Belly of Paris, is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. It is set in and around Les Halles, the enormous, busy central market of 19th-century Paris.
The protagonist is Florent, an escaped political prisoner mistakenly arrested after the French coup of 1851. He returns to his half-brother Quenu, a charcutier and his wife Lisa
...9) Io accuso!
J'Accuse…! (Io accuso…!) è il titolo dell'editoriale scritto dal giornalista e scrittore francese Émile Zola in forma di lettera aperta al presidente della Repubblica francese Félix Faure, e pubblicato il 13 gennaio 1898 dal giornale socialista L'Aurore con lo scopo di denunciare pubblicamente i persecutori di Alfred Dreyfus, le irregolarità e le illegalità commesse nel corso del processo che lo vide condannato per alto tradimento, al
...10) A Love Episode
A Love Episode is the eighth novel in the 'Rougon-Macquart' series by Émile Zola, set among the petite bourgeoisie in Second Empire suburban Paris. The central character of the novel is Hélène Grandjean 'née' Mouret (b. 1824), first introduced briefly in 'La fortune des Rougon'. Hélène is the daughter of Ursule Mouret 'née' Macquart, the illegitimate daughter of Adelaïde Fouque (Tante Dide),
...The Masterpiece is the fourteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It refers to the struggles of the protagonist Claude Lantier to paint a great work reflecting his talent and genius.
Claude Lantier is a revolutionary artist whose work is misunderstood by an art-going public hidebound by traditional subjects, techniques and representations. Many of the characteristics ascribed to Claude Lantier
...12) The Dream
14) The Flood
15) The Downfall
La Débâcle is a novel by Émile Zola published in 1892, the penultimate in Les Rougon-Macquart series. The story is set against the background of the political and military events that ended the reign of Napoléon III and the Second Empire in 1870, in particular the Franco-Prussian War, the Battle of Sedan and the Paris Commune. The novel has been translated as The Debacle and The Downfall. The late nineteenth
...16) Doctor Pascal
Le Docteur Pascal (Doctor Pascal) is the twentieth and final novel of the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola, first published in June 1893 by Charpentier.
Zola's plan for the Rougon-Macquart novels was to show how heredity and environment worked on the members of one family over the course of the Second Empire. He wraps up his heredity theories in this novel. Le docteur Pascal is furthermore
...17) Germinal
Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries and has additionally inspired five film
...18) L’Assommoir
L’Assommoir / Émile Zola
"L'Assommoir [lasɔmwaʁ] (1877) is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel—a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris—was a huge commercial success and helped establish Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world." (Wikipedia)
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