''My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.'' ¿ile ZolaThe penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La D¿cle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola''s lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail.La D¿cle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control, and includes some of the most powerful descriptions Zola ever wrote. Zola skilfully integrates his narrative of events and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in the history of France. Oftencompared to War and Peace, La D¿cle has been described as a ''seminal'' work for all mode
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Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred...
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The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great <b>Rougon-Macquart</b> sequence, <b>Germinal</b> expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and...
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