His Excellency Eugene Rougon - Couverture souple

Zola, Émile

 
9780198748250: His Excellency Eugene Rougon
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0198748256 ISBN 13 : 9780198748250
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.'

His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper échelons of French Second Empire society, including the Imperial court, it focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of the authoritarian Eugène Rougon, the 'vice-Emperor'. But it is more than just a chronicle. It plunges the reader into the essential dynamics of the political: the rivalries, the scheming, the jockeying for position, the ups and downs, the play of interests, the lobbying and gossip, the patronage and string-pulling, the bribery and blackmail, and, especially, the manipulation of language for political purposes. The novel's themes-especially its treatment of political discourse-have remarkable contemporary resonance. His Excellency Eugène Rougon is about politics everywhere.

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À propos de l'auteur

Brian Nelson is Emeritus Professor (French Studies and Translation Studies) at Monash University, Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has been editor of the Australian Journal of French Studies since 2002. His publications include The Cambridge Companion to Zola (CUP, 20017), Zola and the Bourgeoisie (Palgrave Macmillan, 1983), and translations of Earth, The Fortune of the Rougons, The Belly of Paris, The Kill, Pot Luck, and The Ladies' Paradise for Oxford World's Classics. He was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Translation in 2015. His most recent critical work is The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature (CUP, 2015).


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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198748256
ISBN 13 
9780198748250
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Ufficio Anagrafiche Messaggerie
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Assago Milano
20090
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780995566132: His Excellency Eugene Rougon: Volume Six in the Rougon-Macquart, a natural and social history of a family in the Second Empire

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0995566135 ISBN 13 :  9780995566132
Editeur : Lansdown Books, 2018
Couverture souple