Money. Dream. Conquering Plassans
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Money. Dream. Conquering Plassans
14.99 €
Emile Zola is one of the pillars of world realist literature, a leader and theorist of the literary movement of naturalism, a keen researcher of everyday life, a passionate human rights activist and publicist, who influenced the entire realist trend of twentieth-century literature and, above all, the school of "new journalism": Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer. His most famous work is the epochal twenty-volume cycle "Rugon-Macquaries", opening before the reader an endless panorama of human vices and virtues in the scenery of the Second Empire. This is an encyclopedia of life in Paris and the French province on the material of several generations of one family, which gave birth to the most bizarre fruits - dizzying in its detail and scale epic, where there is everything: greed and selflessness, love of neighbor and animal passion, lofty aspirations and daily routine, pride, cruelty, cynicism and violence, the rise and fall of the strong and weak of this world. This illustrated edition includes the fourth, fifth and sixth novels of the cycle, and they sound fresh and relevant even after a century and a half. Before the eyes of the amazed public in the turbulent Paris erected and collapses financial pyramid, the brainchild of a charming lover of profit, a poor orphan girl takes life lessons from the saints, and in the backwater town of Plassan, the birthplace of Rugonov and Makkarov, the local society falls at the feet of a visiting priest, careerist and Pharisee. The novels The Dream and The Conquest of Plassan are published in new translations. Some of Nathan Altman's illustrations for the novel Money are published for the first time.
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