by Émile Zola · Editors, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475611600
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The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Set in and around the vast central market of Les Halles in 19th-century Paris, it is a vivid exploration of the social divide and the struggle between the 'Fat' and the 'Thin', serving as a powerful critique of the Second French Empire.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
