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Doctor Pascal (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198746164)
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x"There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river of life itself..."
Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rural French town of Plassans for thirty years. He lives a quiet life with his faithful servant Martine and young niece Clotilde. Pascal is a man of science, striving to find the ultimate cure for all diseases. This puts him at odds with his niece, who is horrified by his denial of religious faith. Clotilde also distrusts Pascal's lifelong ambition to create a family tree on scientific principles, based upon his theories of heredity. Tensions in the household are fueled by Pascal's scheming mother, Félicité, as the final episode in the great Rougon-Macquart saga plays out. Doctor Pascal is the passionate conclusion to Zola's twenty-novel sequence, and the most eloquent expression of the ideas on heredity and human progress that have underpinned it. Human relations are at its heart, as Pascal and Clotilde are bound ever closer by ties of family and love.
Author: Émile Zola, Julie Rose
ISBN-10: 0198746164
ISBN-13: 9780198746164
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2020
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rural French town of Plassans for thirty years. He lives a quiet life with his faithful servant Martine and young niece Clotilde. Pascal is a man of science, striving to find the ultimate cure for all diseases. This puts him at odds with his niece, who is horrified by his denial of religious faith. Clotilde also distrusts Pascal's lifelong ambition to create a family tree on scientific principles, based upon his theories of heredity. Tensions in the household are fueled by Pascal's scheming mother, Félicité, as the final episode in the great Rougon-Macquart saga plays out. Doctor Pascal is the passionate conclusion to Zola's twenty-novel sequence, and the most eloquent expression of the ideas on heredity and human progress that have underpinned it. Human relations are at its heart, as Pascal and Clotilde are bound ever closer by ties of family and love.
Author: Émile Zola, Julie Rose
ISBN-10: 0198746164
ISBN-13: 9780198746164
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2020
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
By Émile Zola
xÉmile Zola. Translated by Julie Rose; edited by Brian Nelson.
Brian Nelson is Emeritus Professor (French Studies and Translation Studies) at Monash University, Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has been editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies since 2002. His publications include The Cambridge Companion to Zola (20017), Zola and the Bourgeoisie (1983), and translations of His Excellency Eugène Rougon, Earth, The Fortune of the Rougons, The Belly of Paris, The Kill, Pot Luck, and The Ladies' Paradise for Oxford World's Classics. He was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Translation in 2015. His most recent critical work is The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature (2015). Julie Rose's many translations range from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Racine's Phèdre, and André Gorz's Letter to D, to a dozen works by celebrated urbanist-architect and theorist Paul Virilio, and other leading French thinkers. She previously translated Zola's Earth (with Brian Nelson) for Oxford World's Classics.
Brian Nelson is Emeritus Professor (French Studies and Translation Studies) at Monash University, Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has been editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies since 2002. His publications include The Cambridge Companion to Zola (20017), Zola and the Bourgeoisie (1983), and translations of His Excellency Eugène Rougon, Earth, The Fortune of the Rougons, The Belly of Paris, The Kill, Pot Luck, and The Ladies' Paradise for Oxford World's Classics. He was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Translation in 2015. His most recent critical work is The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature (2015). Julie Rose's many translations range from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Racine's Phèdre, and André Gorz's Letter to D, to a dozen works by celebrated urbanist-architect and theorist Paul Virilio, and other leading French thinkers. She previously translated Zola's Earth (with Brian Nelson) for Oxford World's Classics.
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