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Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction
Brian Nelson
23 July 2020
ISBN: 9780198837565
160 pages
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174x111mm
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Price: £8.99Émile Zola occupies a distinctive place in the great tradition of French realist fiction. Brian Nelson introduces this quintessential novelist of modernity, and explores his fascination with change, and the way he opened the novel up to new areas of representation: the realities of working-class life, class relations, and sexuality and the body.
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Émile Zola occupies a distinctive place in the great tradition of French realist fiction. Brian Nelson introduces this quintessential novelist of modernity, and explores his fascination with change, and the way he opened the novel up to new areas of representation: the realities of working-class life, class relations, and sexuality and the body.
- Examines Émile Zola's distinctive place in the history of the European novel
- Explores how Zola opened the novel up to a new realm of subjects and how his work embodies a new freedom of expression in their depiction
- Situates Zola's work in its social and political contexts
- Considers Zola's art criticism, and his role in the Dreyfus Affair, as well as his fiction
- Part of the Very Short introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwide
About the Author(s)
Brian Nelson, Monash University
Brian Nelson is Emeritus Professor of French and Translation Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His publications include The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature, The Cambridge Companion to Zola, Zola and the Bourgeoisie, and translations, for Oxford World's Classics, of Zola's His Excellency Eugène Rougon, Earth (with Julie Rose), The Fortune of the Rougons, The Belly of Paris, The Kill, Pot Luck and The Ladies' Paradise. He has also translated Swann in Love by Marcel Proust.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
1 Zola and the art of fiction
2 Before the Rougon-Macquart
3 The fat and the thin: The Belly of Paris
4 'A work of truth': L'Assommoir
5 The man-eater: Nana
6 The dream machine: The Ladies' Paradise
7 Down the mine: Germinal
8 The Great Mother: Earth
9 After the Rougon-Macquart
A chronology of Zola's life and works
References
Further reading
Reviews
"Its highlights are the short yet lucid English translations from Zola's French and vivid plot summaries." - Sucheta Kapoor, Techno India University, West Bengal , Nineteenth-Century French Studies
"As an introduction to Zola's life and work, Nelson's little book cannot be faulted: it is grounded in a specialist's mastery of the field; it is completed by a reliable chronology; and its invitation to read further is supported by a bibliography listing major editions in French as well as critical studies in English which range from the accessible to the scholarly." - Robert Lethbridge, Journal of European Studies
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