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His Excellency Eugène Rougon

Émile Zola
Brian Nelson

26 April 2018

ISBN: 9780198748250

384 pages
Paperback
196x129mm

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Oxford World's Classics

Price: £9.99

His Excellency Eugène Rougon is the sixth in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. Here, the novel presents a detailed picture of court and political circles during the Second Empire, satirizing the corruption and cronyism at its heart.

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His Excellency Eugène Rougon is the sixth in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. Here, the novel presents a detailed picture of court and political circles during the Second Empire, satirizing the corruption and cronyism at its heart.

  • The first modern translation for more than fifty years and the first critical edition of His Excellency Eugène Rougon, the sixth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series.
  • The novel follows the career of a powerful politician, Eugäne Rougon. A key player in Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'etat of 1851, Rougon is the very embodiment of the corrupt and autocratic Second Empire.
  • Only the second new translation since the nineteenth century.
  • Brian Nelson is the established translator of five other Zola novels in Oxford World's Classics.
  • Includes chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes.

About the Author(s)

Émile Zola

Brian Nelson, Emeritus Professor, Monash University

Brian Nelson is Emeritus Professor (French Studies and Translation Studies) at Monash University, Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has been editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies since 2002. His publications include The Cambridge Companion to Zola (CUP, 20017), Zola and the Bourgeoisie (Palgrave Macmillan, 1983), and translations of Earth, The Fortune of the Rougons, The Belly of Paris, The Kill, Pot Luck, and The Ladies' Paradise for Oxford World's Classics. He was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Translation in 2015. His most recent critical work is The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature (CUP, 2015).

Reviews

"It is easy to savor certain installments in isolation [...] But to read through the Rougon-Macquart in Oxford's fine new translations - fourteen of the twenty volumes retranslated since 2000, seven in the last four years - is to see the mosaic that only Zola's full scheme makes possible." - Aaron Matz, The New York Review of Books

"Im going to celebrate the 21st century with a re-read of His Excellency Eugène Rougon." - Swiftly Tilting Planet

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