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His Masterpiece

Author
Emile Zola
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
14 hours 12 minutes
ISBN
9781802561043
Published
15 October 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Emile Zola
  • Zola
  • naturalism
  • art
  • establishment
  • challenge
  • social order
  • realism
  • France
  • french

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Description

Painter Claude Lantier fights to paint real subjects outdoors against a Paris art world that prefers studio myth and sacred history. Friendship, rivalry, and the torment of a masterpiece that will not come drive Zola’s novel of artists who mean to shake the establishment. Spoken as when the canvas demands a life you may not survive, and genius shares a flat with failure.

Author

Emile Zola (1840–1902) grew up in Aix-en-Provence, failed his baccalaureat, and then mapped a France under pressure in the twenty novels of the Rougon-Macquart. L'Assommoir is drink and a Paris street; Germinal is the mine, the strike, the dark that works. He stood up for Dreyfus in J'Accuse...! and paid in exile. Naturalism was the method: heredity, milieu, a crowd that behaves like weather. The accusation is documentary.

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