Émile Zola
1) Work
4) Fruitfulness
His Masterpiece, sometimes translated as “The Work” or “The Masterpiece,” is Zola’s 14th entry in his Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we see Claude Lantier, a painter with obvious talent, struggle to leave a revolutionary mark on the art world of 19th-century Paris. The novel deftly explores the themes of genius, poverty, purity in art, art as an beaurocratic institution, obsession, and madness.
The book is notable
...6) The Downfall
7) Io accuso!
J'Accuse…! (Io accuso…!) è il titolo dell'editoriale scritto dal giornalista e scrittore francese Émile Zola in forma di lettera aperta al presidente della Repubblica francese Félix Faure, e pubblicato il 13 gennaio 1898 dal giornale socialista L'Aurore con lo scopo di denunciare pubblicamente i persecutori di Alfred Dreyfus, le irregolarità e le illegalità commesse nel corso del processo che lo vide condannato per alto tradimento, al
...Abbe Mouret’s Transgression is the fifth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific events at the end of La Conquête de Plassans, focussing this time on a remote Provençal backwater village.
The plot centres on the neurotic young priest Serge Mouret, first seen in La Conquête de Plassans, as he takes his
...10) A Love Episode
11) L'Œuvre
12) Vérité
14) La Débâcle
15) L'Argent
16) La Joie de vivre
17) The Flood
18) The Flood
The Masterpiece is the fourteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It refers to the struggles of the protagonist Claude Lantier to paint a great work reflecting his talent and genius.
Claude Lantier is a revolutionary artist whose work is misunderstood by an art-going public hidebound by traditional subjects, techniques and representations. Many of the characteristics ascribed to Claude Lantier
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