Brian Nelson

Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction

Sprecher: Perkins, Derek

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tantor
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 251 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798200188420
• Artikelnr.: 61578429

Autorenporträt

Brian Nelson is Emeritus Professor of French and Translation Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His publications include The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature, The Cambridge Companion to Zola, Zola and the Bourgeoisie, and translations, for Oxford World's Classics, of Zola's His Excellency Eugène Rougon, Earth (with Julie Rose), The Fortune of the Rougons, The Belly of Paris, The Kill, Pot Luck and The Ladies' Paradise. He has also translated Swann in Love by Marcel Proust.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
1 Zola and the art of fiction
2 Before the Rougon-Macquart
3 The fat and the thin: The Belly of Paris
4 'A work of truth': L'Assommoir
5 The man-eater: Nana
6 The dream machine: The Ladies' Paradise
7 Down the mine: Germinal
8 The Great Mother: Earth
9 After the Rougon-Macquart
A chronology of Zola's life and works
References
Further reading