by Émile Zola · Livres De Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782277210085
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«La Fortune des Rougon» is the novel by Émile Zola, published by Livres de Poche in paperback (378 pages, in French).
The action takes place in the Provençal town of Plassans during Louis-Napoleon's coup d'état. It recounts the family's origin in two branches, the Rougons and the Macquarts, and contrasts the ambitions of the former with the republican idealism of Silvère.
First instalment of the Les Rougon-Macquart saga; the work was originally published in 1871.
For readers of classic French fiction and 19th-century historical fiction.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
