Henri Mitterand Boeken

Beschrijving van de wantoestanden in de Franse kolenmijnen in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw.

Orphelin de père à sept ans, arraché adolescent à la Provence de son enfance, Zola entre dans la vie sous le signe du déchirement. Foin des études, de la rhétorique, et même de la poésie, il sera journaliste, avant de poursuivre, sur le mode romanesque, une enquête passionnée sur son temps. De L'Assommoir à Nana, de Germinal à La Bête humaine, Zola mène, à travers le cycle des Rougon-Macquart, sa grande bataille pour un roman d'observation et d'analyse, niais aussi pour les libertés du récit et du rêve. Engagé, il l'est. Au point où le roman et la vie ne feront plus qu'un. Ce sera " J'accuse ! ", au vif de l'affaire Dreyfus. Connaisseur éminent de sa vie et de son œuvre, Henri Mitterand retrace ici le parcours littéraire, historique et sentimental de celui qui, condamné à l'exil, osait encore écrire : " La vérité est en marche, et rien ne l'arrêtera. "

L'origine et l'évolution de plus de 50 000 mots et préfixes. La date d'apparition du mot dans la langue française, son origine directe et sa filiation, ainsi que les références précises aux auteurs qui ont employé ces mots pour la première fois, avec l'indication des œuvres. Pour une compréhension plus riche, les mots dérivés sont traités à la suite des mots racines. En annexe, la liste des préfixes et des éléments grecs et latins qui entrent dans la composition des mots français, avec leurs différents sens.

One of Zola's most violent works, this novel is on one level a tale of murder and possession, and on another a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. It evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, and a society hurtling towards the future.

Amidst the deep silence and solitude prevailing in the avenue several market gardeners' carts were climbing the slope which led towards Paris, and the fronts of the houses, asleep behind the dim lines of elms on either side of the road, echoed back the rhythmical jolting of the wheels. At the Neuilly bridge a cart full of cabbages and another full of peas had joined the eight waggons of carrots and turnips coming down from Nanterre; and the horses, left to themselves, had continued plodding along with lowered heads, at a regular though lazy pace, which the ascent of the slope now slackened. The sleeping waggoners, wrapped in woollen cloaks, striped black and grey, and grasping the reins slackly in their closed hands, were stretched at full length on their stomachs atop of the piles of vegetables. Every now and then, a gas lamp, following some patch of gloom, would light up the hobnails of a boot, the blue sleeve of a blouse, or the peak of a cap peering out of the huge florescence of vegetables-red bouquets of carrots, white bouquets of turnips, and the overflowing greenery of peas and cabbages.

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The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his model and wife Christine and their deformed child Jacques - is sacrificed on the altar of Art. The Masterpiece is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it provides a unique insight into his career as a writer and his relationship with Cézanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despite the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public.