Fortune of the Rougons (Pocket Classics)

Name: Fortune of the Rougons (Pocket Classics)
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Author: Émile Zola
ISBN: 9780862992163

by Émile Zola, Brian Nelson

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347 pages1871Sutton Pub LtdISBN 9780862992163

Literature Fiction Classics General History Classique Fiction historique Histoire Adulte

About this book

Les Rougon-Macquart is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled "Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire", it follows the life of one family during the Second French Empire (1852–1870). In this tremendous work, Zola first and foremost examines the impact of social environment on men and women, by varying the social, economic, political and professional milieu in which each novel takes place. It provides us with a close look at everyday life, gives us a deep insight into important social changes and it shows us the true people's history of the Second Empire. _____ Je veux expliquer comment une famille, un petit groupe d'etres, se comporte dans une societe, en s'epanouissant pour donner naissance a dix, a vingt individus qui paraissent, au premier coup d'oeil, profondement dissemblables, mais que l'analyse montre intimement lies les uns aux autres. L'heredite a ses lois, comme la pesanteur.

Publication Details

Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd
Published: 1871
Pages: 347
ISBN: 9780862992163
Language: en

About Émile Zola

Emile Zola was a French journalist and novelist known for his series of 20 novels known collectively as Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93). Zola's style was called literary naturalism; his novels were attacked and even banned for their frankness and sordid detail, and caused quite a bit of controversy in their day. The same traits made him a best-selling author and a star of French literature in his day. In 1898 he then further incurred the wrath of French officials when he published the open letter "J'Accuse," in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, an Army officer who had been convicted of treason. Zola was sentenced to prison for libel, fled to England, and was granted amnesty a few months later. He died in Paris from carbon monoxide poisoning -- the victim of a stopped-up chimney -- a few months before Dreyfus was officially exonerated. [(Source)][1] [1]: http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/emilezola.html