by Emile Zola · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070374373
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«L'Œuvre» is the novel by Émile Zola published by Editions Gallimard in paperback, 493 pages, in French.
Set in Paris during the Second Empire and the early years of Impressionism, it follows Claude Lantier, a painter seeking artistic recognition. Zola portrays the obsession with the masterpiece, creative frustration, and the tension between art and life, as well as a collective portrait of a generation of artists and intellectuals.
Fourteenth instalment of the «Les Rougon-Macquart» series, originally published in 1886. This «folio classique» edition includes a preface by Bruno Foucart.
For those who enjoy classic French fiction and wish to read Émile Zola in his original language.
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.
