Paris

by Emile Zola

Overview

Dans Paris, qui peut etre lu pour lui-meme, prend fin l'histoire de Pierre Froment. Ce jeune pretre tourmente par la perte de la foi, chez qui Zola a mis beaucoup de lui-meme, va trouver a Paris la reponse a ses angoisses, decouvrir par le travail et l'amour de nouvelles raisons de vivre. Ce roman est aussi un immense drame social, une chronique exacte et animee de la vie politique francaise au moment du scandale de Panama et des attentats anarchistes, une peinture foisonnante du Paris moderne, de tous ses lieux, de tous ses mondes, un hymne a la ville-lumiere, reine de l'univers et creatrice de l'avenir. Dans la lignee de Balzac et de Victor Hugo, Zola apporte sa contribution au grand mythe romantique de Paris, au moment ou s'acheve le XIXe siecle. Apres Lourdes et Rome, Paris forme le dernier volet des Trois Villes."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781530520558
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/13/2016
Pages:	446
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.90(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist, journalist, and playwright. Born in Paris to a French mother and Italian father, Zola was raised in Aix-en-Provence. At 18, Zola moved back to Paris, where he befriended Paul Cézanne and began his writing career. During this early period, Zola worked as a clerk for a publisher while writing literary and art reviews as well as political journalism for local newspapers. Following the success of his novel Thérèse Raquin (1867), Zola began a series of twenty novels known as Les Rougon-Macquart, a sprawling collection following the fates of a single family living under the Second Empire of Napoleon III. Zola’s work earned him a reputation as a leading figure in literary naturalism, a style noted for its rejection of Romanticism in favor of detachment, rationalism, and social commentary. Following the infamous Dreyfus affair of 1894, in which a French-Jewish artillery officer was falsely convicted of spying for the German Embassy, Zola wrote a scathing open letter to French President Félix Faure accusing the government and military of antisemitism and obstruction of justice. Having sacrificed his reputation as a writer and intellectual, Zola helped reverse public opinion on the affair, placing pressure on the government that led to Dreyfus’ full exoneration in 1906. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902, Zola is considered one of the most influential and talented writers in French history.