The Fortune of the Rougons

Name: The Fortune of the Rougons
Author: Emile Zola
ISBN: 9781909904934

Author: Emile Zola
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 306 pages
ISBN: 9781909904934
Published: 15 November 2013
Imprint: Sovereign

Emile Zola
Zola
naturalism
social order
realism
France
french
psychological
philosophical
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We enter the world of a fictional town of Plassans in Zola's native region of Provence and we are introduced to the eccentric heroine Adelaide Fouque, later known as Tante Dide, who becomes the common ancestor for both the Rougon and Macquart families. Her legitimate son from her short marriage to her late husband, a labourer named Rougon who worked on Dide's land, is forced to grow up alongside two illegitimate children.

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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