Defeat. Doctor Pascal
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Defeat. Doctor Pascal
19.99 €
Émile Zola is one of the pillars of world realistic literature, the founder and theorist of naturalism, a passionate explorer of everyday life, a passionate human rights activist, and a publicist who influenced the entire realist movement in 20th-century literature. His most famous work is the landmark twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle, which reveals to the reader an endless panorama of human vices and virtues against the backdrop of the Second Empire. It is a veritable encyclopedia of life in Paris and the French provinces, illustrated by several generations of a single family, which bore the strangest fruits.
This illustrated edition includes the novels "The Rout" (1892) and "Doctor Pascal" (1893), which, according to the author's prescribed reading order, occupy the nineteenth and twentieth places, concluding the Rougon-Macquart cycle.
Jean Macquart, already familiar to readers from his novel "L'Etre," disillusioned with rural life, returns to the army, where he watches helplessly as the Empire collapses and its armies are routed. The dramatic events of the Paris Commune upend Jean's life, but the fall of the Empire, that colossus with feet of clay, offers hope for a new beginning.
The novel "Doctor Pascal" is set in the early 1870s, after the fall of the Second Empire, the historical backdrop against which the series unfolds. The research of Doctor Pascal Rougon, a quiet scholar in Plassans studying his family lineage, brings to a close the grand chronicle of the Rougon-Macquart family, which Émile Zola labored over for over twenty years.
This illustrated edition includes the novels "The Rout" (1892) and "Doctor Pascal" (1893), which, according to the author's prescribed reading order, occupy the nineteenth and twentieth places, concluding the Rougon-Macquart cycle.
Jean Macquart, already familiar to readers from his novel "L'Etre," disillusioned with rural life, returns to the army, where he watches helplessly as the Empire collapses and its armies are routed. The dramatic events of the Paris Commune upend Jean's life, but the fall of the Empire, that colossus with feet of clay, offers hope for a new beginning.
The novel "Doctor Pascal" is set in the early 1870s, after the fall of the Second Empire, the historical backdrop against which the series unfolds. The research of Doctor Pascal Rougon, a quiet scholar in Plassans studying his family lineage, brings to a close the grand chronicle of the Rougon-Macquart family, which Émile Zola labored over for over twenty years.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Foreign Literature. Large Books
- Все книги цикла Rougon-Macquart
