by Émile Zola · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266082594
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«L'Œuvre» is the naturalist novel by Émile Zola, published by Pocket in paperback (492 pages, in French).
Claude Lantier, a painter in nineteenth-century France, embodies creative passion and its contradictions: the ambition to renew painting, permanent dissatisfaction and the sacrifice of emotional life. Zola, who was an art critic and knew the avant-garde painters, portrays an effervescent artistic milieu and the drama of creation.
L'Œuvre was originally published in 1886 and is the fourteenth instalment of the Les Rougon-Macquart series. This Pocket edition, introduced and annotated by Pierre-Louis Rey, includes the complete text and keys to the work.
Intended for readers of classic French literature and naturalism, and for those who want to read the original text in French.
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.
