- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Classic Literature, Fiction, Literature
Jean, ce matin-la, un semoir de toile bleue noue sur le ventre, en tenait la poche ouverte de la main gauche, et de la droite, tous les trois pas, il y prenait une poignee de ble, que d'un geste, a la volee, il jetait.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Émile Zola
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 501
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, eBooksLib, New Eng. Lib
- Editions
- 89
- Language
- French, und, English
- ISBN
- 9782070371778
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“THAT morning, Jean had slung a blue canvas seedbag round his middle, and was holding it open with his left hand, whilst with his right he took out a handful of wheat and at every third step scattered it broadcast with a sweep of his arm.”
Emile Zola was a French journalist and novelist known for his series of 20 novels known collectively as Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93). Zola's style was called literary naturalism; his novels were attacked and even banned for their frankness and sordid detail, and caused quite a bit of controversy in their day. The same traits made him a best-selling author and a star of French literature in his day. In 1898 he then further incurred the wrath of French officials when he published the open letter "J'Accuse," in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, an Army officer who had been convicted of treason. Zola was sentenced to prison for libel, fled to England, and was granted amnesty a few months later. He die
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