The Belly of Paris
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The Belly of Paris
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Emile Zola is one of the pillars of world realist literature, the founder and theorist of naturalism, a keen researcher of everyday life, a passionate human rights activist and publicist. His most famous work - the epochal twenty-volume cycle "Rugon-Macquaries", revealing to the reader an endless panorama of human vices and virtues in the scenery of the Second Empire. This is a true encyclopedia of life in Paris and the French province on the example of several generations of one family. "The Womb of Paris" - one of the most famous novels of the cycle. Written in 1873 and in the same year published in Russia in an anonymous translation, the novel actually laid the beginning of Emile Zola's popularity with Russian readers. The political upheaval that brought Napoleon III to power, tragically changed the fates of many people. Modest schoolteacher Florent, selflessly raising his younger brother, during the riots mistakenly mistaken for an opponent of the new regime and sentenced to hard labor. A few years later, risking his life, Florent escapes from the penal servitude and arrives in Paris, in the midst of which spreads a huge Central Market, the Womb of Paris, the source and symbol of satiety and contentment - the main virtues of the Second Empire, suspicious of hungry idealists....
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