The Joy of Life - Couverture souple

Zola, Emile

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1434413551 ISBN 13 : 9781434413550

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2023

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The Joy of Life, was written by M. Zola in 1888, partly at his country house at Medan, and partly at B6nodet, a little seaside i place in Brittany. The scene of the story is laid, however, on the coast of the neighbouring province of Normandy, between the mouth of the Orne and the rocks of Grandcamp, where the author had sojourned, more than once, in previous years. The title selected by him for this book is to be taken in an ironical or sarcastic sense. There is no joy at all in the lives of the characters whom he portrays in it. The story of the hero is one of mental weakness, poisoned by a constantly recurring fear of death; whilst that of his father is one of intense physical suffering, blended with an eager desire to continue living, even at the cost of yet greater torture. A gain, the story of the heroine is one of blighted affections, the wrecking of all which might have made her life worth living. And there is a great deal of truth in the various pictures of human existence which are thus presented to us; however much some people, in their egregious vanity, may recoil from the idea that life and love and talent and glory are all very poor and paltry things. M. Zola is not usually a pessimist. One finds many of his darkest pictures relieved by a touch of hopefulness ;but there is extremely little in the pages of La Joie de Vivre, which is essentially an analysis of human suffering and misery. Nevertheless, the heroine, Pauline Quenu, the daughter of the Quenus who figure largely in Le Ventre de Paris (T he Fat and the Thin ), is a beautiful, touching, and almost consolatory creature.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1434413551
• ISBN 13: 9781434413550
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 326