by Émile Zola · Editions Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080702272
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«La Curée» is the naturalist novel by Émile Zola, published by Editions Flammarion in paperback (312 pages, in French).
Set in Paris during the Second Empire, the novel portrays a society driven by ambition and greed, where money, corruption and unbridled passions become the engine of a city in full transformation.
Second installment of Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart cycle; French edition, no. 227 in the GF collection, with an introduction by Claude Duchet.
For readers of French classics and historical novels set in the nineteenth century.
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.
