Émile Zola : writing modern life /
Everyone has heard of Zola, but not many people have read him. This book is quite simply designed to get you to want to, by taking a look at what is on offer, with so much more to discover. Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | My reading (Series)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Everyone has heard of Zola, but not many people have read him. This book is quite simply designed to get you to want to, by taking a look at what is on offer, with so much more to discover. Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the later nineteenth century - and he went on to carry it out, with novels that look at the longings and troubles and everyday lives of just about every kind of person in their specific social settings. Travelling through the varieties of Zola's styles and subjects, realistic, comic, tragic, and critical, from shopping to mining to the fertility industry, the book is a guide to the different pleasures and modes of thinking to be found in reading Zola today. It also considers the many kinds of story involved in the final years of Zola's own life, and in the wake of his untimely death in 1902 from asphyxiation. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198874157 0198874154 9780198942764 0198942761 9780198874140 0198874146 |