Foam. Ladies' Happiness
14.99 €
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Foam. Ladies' Happiness
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 direction of literature of the XX century 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 seventh and eighth novels of the cycle - a deep dive into the life of the Parisian bourgeois, a panorama comical, sometimes touching, but more often terrible. Octave Mouret, a pragmatist and a womanizer, comes to Paris, where he rises to the top, seducing women and inspiring confidence in men. He inherits and expands the store "Ladies' Happiness" - his pride, the embodiment of an efficient and cynical approach to trade and advertising - but all this dazzling glitter fades when Mouret meets Denise Bodiu, a modest saleswoman, who against her will wins his heart ... The novel "Foam" is published in a magnificent new translation.
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