The masterpiece
By: Emile Zola ; translated by Thomas Walton ; translation revised and introduced by Roger Pearson.
Contributors: Walton, Thomas.; Pearson, Roger.
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780199536917
Subjects: Zola, Émile, -- 1840-1902 -- Fiction; Impressionist artists -- Fiction; Paris (France) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Œuvre.
Description: The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides a unique insight into Zola's career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despite the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.