Rome by Emile Zola, Fiction, Literary, Classics

ISBN-13: 9781603122115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 528 str.

Emile Zola; Ernest Alfred Vizetelly; Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

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Emile Zola was an elegant writer -- more elegant than his reputation as a political firebrand might suggest. Zola's most famous work was a newspaper article: his impassioned defense of imprisoned Captain Alfred Dreyfus, ""J'accuse."" "Rome" is the second volume of "The Three Cities (Les Trois Villes), " first published in 1896. The first volume tells of the troubled priest Pierre Froment's journey to "Lourdes, " hoping to find a cure for his spiritual doubts. In "Rome, " Pierre travels to the Holy City, hoping to persuade the Pope to approve of his Christian, socialist theories. The final book of the trilogy, "Paris, " tells of Pierre's return to the City of Light, watching the fall of Catholicism, and the rise of Pierre's new "faith" of scientific rationalism. A continuation of Zola's great twenty-novel sequence, "Les Rougon-Macquart, " among which are "Nana, Germinal, " and "La Debacle, Rome" is a book written by Zola at the end of his career, during which his powers were thought to be at their highest."