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Only the earth is immortalthe earth we love enough to commit murder for her.
Zolas novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in the Rougon-Macquart series, is generally regarded as one of his finest achievements, comparable to Germinal and LAssommoir. Set in a village in the Beauce, in northern France, it depicts the harshness of the peasants world and their visceral attachment to the land. Jean Macquart, a veteran of the battle of Solferino and now an itinerant farm labourer, is drawn into the affairs of the Fouan family when he starts courting young Fran?ise. He becomes involved in a bitter dispute over the property of Papa Fouan when the old man divides his land between his three children. Resentment turns to greed and violence in a Darwinian battle for supremacy.
Zolas unflinching depiction of the savagery of peasant life shocked his readers, and led to attacks on Naturalisms literary agenda. This new translation captures the novels blend of brutality and lyricism in its evocation of the inexorable cycle of the natural world.
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Author: Émile Zola, Brian Nelson, Julie Rose
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/01/2016
Series: Oxford Worlds Classics
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780199677870
Language: English
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