{"title":"Emile Zola","description":"Émile Zola was born in 1840 and worked as a journalist before turning to fiction. He wrote his first major novel, Thérèse Raquin, in 1867, and the publication of L'Assommoir ten years later made him the most famous writer in France. His work has influenced authors from August Strindberg to Theodore Dreiser to Tom Wolfe. He died in 1902.","products":[{"product_id":"the-kill-paperback","title":"The Kill - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is a true publishing event-the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction's giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for a century, Zola's \u003ci\u003eThe Kill\u003c\/i\u003e (La Cur e) emerges as an unheralded classic of naturalism. Second in the author's twenty-volume \u003ci\u003eRougon-Macquart\u003c\/i\u003e saga, it is a riveting story of family transgression, heedless desire, and societal greed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe incestuous affair of Ren e Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Ren e's financier husband, Aristide, in a Paris becoming a modern metropolis and \"the capital of the nineteenth century.\" In the end, setting and story merge in actions that leave a woman's spirit and a city's soul ravaged beyond repair. As vividly rendered by Arthur Goldhammer, one of the world's premier translators from the French, \u003ci\u003eThe Kill\u003c\/i\u003e contains all the qualities of the school of fiction marked, as Henry James wrote, by \"infernal intelligence.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this new incarnation, \u003ci\u003eThe Kill\u003c\/i\u003e joins \u003ci\u003eNana\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGerminal\u003c\/i\u003e on the shelf of Zola classics, works by an immortal author who-explicit, pitiless, wise, and unrelenting-always goes in for the kill.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is a true publishing event-the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction's giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for a century, Zola's \"The Kill (La Curee) emerges as an unheralded classic of naturalism. Second in the author's twenty-volume \"Rougon-Macquart saga, it is a riveting story of family transgression, heedless desire, and societal greed. \u003cbr\u003eThe incestuous affair of Renee Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Renee's financier husband, Aristide, in a Paris becoming a modern metropolis and \"the capital of the nineteenth century.\" In the end, setting and story merge in actions that leave a woman's spirit and a city's soul ravaged beyond repair. As vividly rendered by Arthur Goldhammer, one of the world's premier translators from the French, \"The Kill contains all the qualities of the school of fiction marked, as Henry James wrote, by \"infernal intelligence.\" \u003cbr\u003eIn this new incarnation, \"The Kill joins \"Nana and \"Germinal on the shelf of Zola classics, works by an immortal author who-explicit, pitiless, wise, and unrelenting-always goes in for the kill. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101535670495,"sku":"9780812966374","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/t_s1unJLRC9780812966374.webp?v=1781071678"},{"product_id":"the-belly-of-paris-paperback","title":"The Belly of Paris - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e?mile Zola was one of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century. A founder of the realist literary movement. Zola began in 1871 to write his most notable series of novels, \"Les Rougon-Macquart\", in which he relates the history of a fictional family under the Second Empire in France. Unlike Honor? de Balzac, whose works examined a wider scope of French society, Zola focused on the evolution of one single family. The third novel in this series, \"Le Ventre de Paris\", which literally translates as \"The Belly of Paris\", was first published in French in 1873 and in English in 1888. It is the first novel in the series to represent the French working class in its entirety. It tells the tale of Florent, an escaped political prisoner who seeks refuge in Paris with his half-brother Quenu and his wife Lisa. The subject of great controversy in England when first published by Henry Vizetelly, who was convicted of obscene libel for having done so, the novel was subsequently released in an expurgated form by Vizetelly's son Edward. This edition presents the original unexpurgated edition first published in 1888 by Henry Vizetelly and is printed on premium acid-free paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101576466655,"sku":"9781420982091","price":20.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qLAcyBwT0U9781420982091.webp?v=1781071754"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/emile-zola.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}