His Excellency Eugène Rougon by Zola, Émile

His Excellency Eug鈩e Rougon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198748250)

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His Excellency Eugène Rougon by Zola, Émile

His Excellency Eug鈩e Rougon

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His Excellency Eugène Rougon by Zola, Émile

His Excellency Eug鈩e Rougon

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Format: Paperback
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'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.'

His Excellency Eug鈩e Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper echelons of French Second Empire society, including the Imperial court, it focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of the authoritarian Eug鈩e Rougon, the "vice-Emperor." But it is more than just a chronicle. It plunges the reader into the essential dynamics of the political: the rivalries, the scheming, the jockeying for position, the ups and downs, the play of interests, the lobbying and gossip, the patronage and string-pulling, the bribery and blackmail, and, especially, the manipulation of language for political purposes. The novel's themes--especially its treatment of political discourse--have remarkable contemporary resonance. His Excellency Eug鈩e Rougon is about politics everywhere.

Author: ﾉmile Zola
ISBN-10: 0198748256
ISBN-13: 9780198748250
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 06/26/2018
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.80d
By ﾉmile Zola
By ﾉmile Zola
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Brian Nelson is Emeritus Professor of 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 (CUP, 20017), Zola and the Bourgeoisie (Palgrave Macmillan, 1983), and translations of 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 (CUP, 2015).

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