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The Fortune of the Rougons

Author
Emile Zola
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
12 hours 41 minutes
ISBN
9781802561067
Published
16 October 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Emile Zola
  • Zola
  • naturalism
  • social order
  • realism
  • France
  • french
  • psychological
  • philosophical
  • provoking

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Description

In Plassans, eccentric Adelaide Fouque—Tante Dide—becomes the common ancestor of the Rougon and Macquart lines as legitimate and illegitimate children grow up under one roof and ambition begins to breed. Family origin becomes political fate. Spoken as when the fortune of the Rougons still asks what blood will claim when a town is ready for power.

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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