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Libro "scandaloso" contro il quale si scagliò quella società del Secondo Impero avviata alla guerra che Zola ritrae impietosamente, il romanzo inizia con l'evocazione del fantasma di Bismarck e si chiude col triplice grido "A Berlino!" che sale dal boulevard sotto il Grand Hotel dove è morta Nanà, orrendamente sfigurata dal vaiolo. Un capolavoro di rara bellezza che immortala la "biografia" di una Venere seducente e temeraria, un personaggio t...

Thérèse Raquin", forse il più famoso romanzo di Zola, è la straordinaria, lucidissima analisi di un delitto quasi perfetto. In apparenza la storia è un tipico feuilleton: due amanti, sconvolti dal desiderio carnale, diventano assassini per sbarazzarsi del marito di lei e finiscono travolti dalla precisione della loro stessa macchinazione. Si assiste così a una metamorfosi quasi "chimica" della passione in paura e in egoismo: i due complici son...

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Émile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.

Emile Zola's "His Masterpiece" is the author's most autobiographical novel, based in part on his boyhood friendship with the painter Paul Cezanne. The painter of "His Masterpiece, " Claude Lantier, has much in common with Cezanne, as well as Manet -- the controversial painter of this period whose "realistic" work in some ways mirrors Zola's writing. Claude's friend Pierre Sandoz, the clerk and writer of the novel, is based closely on Zola hims...

Raised alongside her sickly cousin, Therese lives the quietest of lives. Yet something impetuous and wild stirs within her -- as she learns of herself during moments of escape into the countryside. But now the family is in Paris, taking over a mercer's shop in the dingy Arcade of the Pont Neuf. To appease the aunt who has cared for her, she marries her pale, nerve-wracked cousin. Then a schoolmate of her husband's appears -- almost his comple...

Her smile lit her red mouth and shined in her eyes of clearest blue . . . a delicate sense of enjoyment made her tilt her nose, the rosy nostrils of which lifted and fell -- while a bright flush suffused her cheeks." Paris clamored to see her -- "Nana, Nana!" they cried, to bring onstage the new star of "The Blonde Venus." Then she appeared -- and as for stage abilities, Nana seemed to have none . . . yet the sensuous vitality of her every mov...

The first of a series of more than twenty novels, "The Fortune of the Rougons" presents the passions and conflicts of two families -- one wealthy and aiming at the aristocracy, the other working-class and in desperate poverty -- in a French village in the years leading up to Napoleon III's coup against the weak French republic and the triumph of his Second Empire. The great political tides of their time flow in, mingling national rivalries wit...

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Emile Zola was a French novelist who wrote in the school of naturalism and is noted for his work in revolutionizing France. The Rougon-Macquart series brought Zola literary fame and is considered his life work. It took 25 years to finish the 20 volumes. The idea of writing the social history of a family encompassing several volumes probably came from his reading the works of Balzac. Zola shows how people in a family who appear to be quite indi...

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Émile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.

A human and social study of Paris, this novel uses the great city as the dramatic framework for a...

Francia, 1866: Étienne Lantier abofetea a su patrón y se queda sin empleo. Vagabundo y sin trabajo, halla nueva ocupación en las minas de carbón. Los rigores de la labor bajo tierra, las condiciones inhumanas, la injusticia, la crisis social, la revolución y la huelga, la brutal represión, pero también el amor, son los protagonistas de Germinal, uno de los más rotundos y vívidos alegatos nunca escritos en favor de los explotados y los oprimido...

The tragic fate of a well-to-do farming family is the focus of the dramatic novella, "The Flood", by Emile Zola. From the perspective of the family's patriarch, the seventy-year-old Louis Roubien, Zola provides the reader with emotionally charged and detailed descriptions of the large family's desperate struggle against the rising flood waters and of the destruction of their farm. --- Emile Zola is considered to be the most important represent...

In the five stories in this volume, Emile Zola describes the circumstances surrounding the deaths of five people from very different social contexts. A nobleman, a person from the upper middle class, a small businessman, a jobber, and a peasant-all of whom have reached the end of their lives-as well as their family members, are the heroes of these detailed and soberly narrated stories. --- A literary study of the social differences and the val...

The Mysteries Marseille" recounts the love of Philippe Cayol, poor, untitled, republican, and of young Blanche de Cazalis, the niece of De Cazalis, a millionaire, politician and all-powerful in Marseille. Philippe's brother, Marius, devotes himself to protecting the two lovers - and the child Blanche gave birth to before entering a convent - from the anger of De Cazalis. --- "The Mysteries of Marseille" appeared as a serialized story in "Le Me...

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