L'Oeuvre is the fourteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Emile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas beginning in December 1885 before being published in novel form by Charpentier in 1886.
The title, translated literally as "The Work" (as in work of art), is often rendered in English as The Masterpiece or His Masterpiece. It refers to the struggles of the protagonist Claude Lantier to paint a great work reflecting his talent and genius.
L'Oeuvre is a highly fictionalized account of Zola's friendship with the painter Paul C�zanne. Zola and C�zanne grew up together in Aix-en-Provence, the model for Zola's Plassans, where Claude Lantier is born and receives his education. Like C�zanne, Claude Lantier is a revolutionary artist whose work is misunderstood by an art-going public hidebound to traditional subjects, techniques, and representations. Zola's self-portrait can be seen in the character of the novelist Pierre Sandoz.
The book is often blamed with ending the friendship between C�zanne and Zola. The story of a groundbreaking artist unable to live up to his potential must have seemed intensely personal to C�zanne; no correspondence exists between the two after a letter in which C�zanne thanks Zola for sending him the novel.
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L'Oeuvre is the fourteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Emile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas beginning in December 1885 before being published in novel form by Charpentier in 1886.
The title, translated literally as "The Work" (as in work of art), is often rendered in English as The Masterpiece or His Masterpiece. It refers to the struggles of the protagonist Claude Lantier to paint a great work reflecting his talent and genius.
L'Oeuvre is a highly fictionalized account of Zola's friendship with the painter Paul C�zanne. Zola and C�zanne grew up together in Aix-en-Provence, the model for Zola's Plassans, where Claude Lantier is born and receives his education. Like C�zanne, Claude Lantier is a revolutionary artist whose work is misunderstood by an art-going public hidebound to traditional subjects, techniques, and representations. Zola's self-portrait can be seen in the character of the novelist Pierre Sandoz.
The book is often blamed with ending the friendship between C�zanne and Zola. The story of a groundbreaking artist unable to live up to his potential must have seemed intensely personal to C�zanne; no correspondence exists between the two after a letter in which C�zanne thanks Zola for sending him the novel.
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His Masterpiece : (L'Oeuvre)
His Masterpiece : (L'Oeuvre)
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| ISBN-13: | 9781607780571 |
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| Publisher: | MobileReference |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2010 |
| Series: | Mobi Classics |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 445 KB |