by Émile Zola · LGF · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253005629
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«Le Ventre de Paris» is the novel by Émile Zola, published by LGF in paperback (384 pages, in French).
The action takes place in Paris under the Second Empire, around the central market of Les Halles, whose stalls and goods form the great stage of the story. Florent, a man arrested by mistake and deported, returns after seven years of exile and reunites with his stepbrother, married to Lisa Macquart. His presence in the prosperous family delicatessen rekindles the conflict between bourgeois abundance and ideals of justice, in a story that pits «the fat» against «the thin» within the Rougon-Macquart cycle.
It is the third installment of the saga «Les Rougon-Macquart», originally published in 1873. This edition includes the critical work of Philippe Hamon and Marie-France Azéma, with a preface by Armand Lanoux.
Suitable for readers interested in French naturalism, classic nineteenth-century narrative and the work of Émile Zola in its original language.
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.
