Overview
First serialized in French in 1885, mile Zola's "The Masterpiece" is the story of naturalist painter Claude Lantier and is believed to be a highly fictionalized account of Zola's real-life friendship with the painter Paul C zanne. The fictional artist of Zola's Bohemian world, Lantier, strives to complete a great work that will reflect his own talent and genius as a revolutionary, but struggles greatly in living up to his artistic potential. The story was perhaps too personal for C zanne, whose correspondence with Zola ended immediately after the novel's publication. Nevertheless, this story of the misunderstood artist, brilliant but scorned by the intolerant art-going public, and their unwillingness to abandon traditional practices, epitomizes the attitudes of bohemian revolutionaries and is an enduring example of nineteenth-century French naturalism. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows the translation of Edward Vizetelly.
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- ISBN-13: 9781420979374
- ISBN-10: 142097937X
- Publisher: Digireads.com
- Publish Date: December 2021
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.66 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.82 pounds
- Page Count: 292
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