A Love Episode (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
by Emile Zola
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Author: Emile ZolaCommentary: C. C. Starkweather
Illustrator: Dantan
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-24
ISBN: 1406554383
Number of pages: 356
Publisher: Dodo Press
Book Reviews of A Love Episode (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Book Review: Great study of a neurosis and its social consequences
Summary: 5 Stars
Chronolgically, A Love Episode (Une Page d'amour) is the 8th volume of the Rougon-Macquart series. There can be no doubt in the mind of the judicial critic that in the pages of "A Love Episode" the reader finds more of the poetical, more of the delicately artistic, more of the subtle emanation of creative and analytical genius, than in any other of Zola's works... In all literature there is nothing like the portrayal of the punishment of Helene Grandjean. Helene and little Jeanne are reversions of type. The old "neurosis," seen in earlier bran-ches of the family, reappears in these characters. Readers of the series will know where it began. Poor little Jeanne, most pathetic of creations, is a study in abnormal jealousy, a jealousy which seems to be clairvoyant, full of supernatural intuitions, turning everything to suspicion, a jealousy which blights and kills. Could the memory of those weeks of anguish fade from Helene's soul? This dying of a broken heart is not merely the figment of a poet's fancy. It has happened in real life. The coming of death, save in the case of the very aged, seems, nearly always, brutally cruel, at least to those friends who survive. (C. C. Starkweather)
Summary of A Love Episode (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Emile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. More than half of his novels were part of a set of 20 collectively known as Les Rougon-Macquart. Set in France's Second Empire, the series traces the 'hereditary' influence of violence, alcoholism, and prostitution in two branches of a single family: the respectable (that is, legitimate) Rougons and the disreputable (illegitimate) Macquarts, for five generations. His works include Therese Raquin (1867), Germinal (1885), Abbé Mouret's Transgression (1886), The Three Cities, Part I (1894), The Three Cities, Part II (1896), The Three Cities, Part III (1898), Fruitfulness (1900), and A Love Episode (1905).Contemporary Books
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