The Sin of Abbé Mouret
Émile Zola
Translated by Valerie Minogue
11 May 2017
ISBN: 9780198736639
352 pages
Paperback
196x129mm
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Price: £8.99The Sin of Abbé Mouret is the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It follows Serge Mouret, a young priest, aspiring to perfect purity and sanctity. An illness leaves him with amnesia, and no longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love with his nurse. Together they roam an Eden-like garden called the 'Paradou'.
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The Sin of Abbé Mouret is the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It follows Serge Mouret, a young priest, aspiring to perfect purity and sanctity. An illness leaves him with amnesia, and no longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love with his nurse. Together they roam an Eden-like garden called the 'Paradou'.
- A compelling new translation of one of Zola's most powerful novels, the fifth work in his famous Rougon-Macquart series that traces the fortunes of a family over five generations.
- Excellent new translation by Valerie Minogue, well known as the President of the Emile Zola Society in London and for her translation of Zola's L'Argent (Money) for Oxford World's Classics.
- Includes a full contextualizing introduction and helpful historical notes.
- The text used for the translation is the admirably accurate and thoroughly researched text of the Pléiade edition, scrupulously annotated by Henri Mitterand.
- Includes an up-to-date bibliography and chronology of the author.
About the Author(s)
Émile Zola
Translated by Valerie Minogue, Emeritus Professor of the University of WalesValerie Minogue has taught at the universities of Cardiff, Queen Mary, London, and Swansea. She is co-founder of Romance Studies and has been President of the Émile Zola Society, London, since 2005. She was made an Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2012.
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
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