Doctor Pascal

by Emile Zola

Overview

This is the final volume in the Rougon-Macquart series. This series brought Zola literary fame and is considered his life work. It took 25 years to finish the 20 volumes. The idea for writing the social history of a family encompassing several volumes probably came from his reading the works of Balzac. Zola shows how people in a family who appear to be quite individualistic actually are quite similar. Heredity and proximity determine who we are and how we act. The novel begins in 1872, after the fall of the Second Empire and the end of the reign of Emperor Napoleon III. Pascal Rougon is the son of Pierre and Félicité Rougon, who rose to power in the fictional town of Plassans which was detailed in the first novel of the series La fortune des Rougon.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940000748558
Publisher:	B&R Samizdat Express
Publication date:	12/01/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	838 KB

About the Author

mile Zola

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 (20017), Zola and the Bourgeoisie (1983), and translations of His Excellency Eug ne Rougon, 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 (2015).

Julie Rose is an internationally renowned translator, whose many translations range from Victor Hugo's Les Mis rables, Racine's Ph dre, and Andr Gortz's Letter to D, to a dozen works by celebrated urbanist-architect and theorist Paul Virilio, and other leading French thinkers. She previously translation Zola's Earth for Oxford World's Classics.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Translator's Note
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of mile Zola
Family Tree of the Rougon-Macquart
Doctor Pascal
Explanatory Notes