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Author: Emile Zola Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198801890 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 581
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La Debacle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1.
Author: Emile Zola Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198801890 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 581
Book Description
La Debacle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1.
Author: Emile Zola Publisher: Mondial ISBN: 1595691111 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 442
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In "The Downfall" Zola tells the story of a terrific land-slide which overwhelmed the French Second Empire: It is a story of war, grim and terrible; of a struggle to the death between two great nations. In it the author has put much of his finest work, and the result is one of the masterpieces of literature. The hero is Jean Macquart, son of Antoine Macquart and brother of Gervaise. After the terrible death of his wife, as told in "La Terre" ("The Soil"), Jean enlisted for the second time in the army, and went through the campaign up to the battle of Sedan. After the capitulation he was made prisoner, and in escaping was wounded. When he returned to active service he took part in crushing the excesses of the Commune in Paris... The Downfall has been described as "a prose epic of modern war," and vast though the subject be, it is treated in a manner that is powerful, painful, and pathetic.
Author: Émile Joseph Zola Publisher: ISBN: 9781977833556 Category : Languages : en Pages : 468
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The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail. La Debacle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control, and includes some of the most powerful description Zola ever wrote. Zola skilfully integrates his narrative of events and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in the history of France. Often compared to War and Peace, La Debacle has been described as a "seminal" work for all modern depictions of war.
Author: Émile Zola Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781981274000 Category : Languages : en Pages : 378
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La D�b�cle is a novel by �mile Zola published in 1892, the penultimate in les Rougon-Macquart series. The novel is by far the longest of the Rougon-Macquart series and it starts in the summer of 1870, when after serious diplomatic tensions, France has declared war on Prussia. Its main character is Jean Macquart, a farmer who after having lost his wife and land, has joined the army for the campaign of 1870. The main theme is the brutality of war for the common soldier and for the civilian population as it is hit by losses of family and friends and by economic hardship.
Author: Émile Zola Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019882856X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 481
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'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pittance washing other people's dirty clothes in the local washhouse, and dreams of having her own laundry. But in order to start her business she must incur debt, and her feckless husband cannot resist the lure of the Assommoir, the local bar that supplies all the working men with cheap spirits and absinthe. As her money troubles grow, so Gervaise's life begins to spiral out of control, and she is trapped in a vicious web of want and neglect. The Assommoir is a pivotal novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. In it he lays bare the terrible poverty of the Parisian underclass, living in overcrowded tenements, addicted to drink, a world of squalor, and casual violence. It contains some of Zola's most powerful and graphic writing, unforgettable portrayals of individuals and their environment, and the fine line between self-respect and ruin.
Author: Emile Zola Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 352
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La Débâcle is a novel by Émile Zola published in 1892, the penultimate in Les Rougon-Macquart series. The story is set against the background of the political and military events that ended the reign of Napoléon III and the Second Empire in 1870, in particular the Franco-Prussian War, the Battle of Sedan and the Paris Commune. The novel has been translated as The Debacle and The Downfall. The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing tried to read the novel in French in February 1896, through "intervals of rage", but without specifying what was the cause.
Author: Emile Zola
Author: Emile Zola
Author: Emile Zola
Author: Émile Zola
Author: Émile Joseph Zola
Author: Emile Zola
Author: Émile Zola
Author: Émile Zola
Author: Émile Zola
Author: Emile Zola
Author: Émile Zola