01601    a2200229   4500001000700000003000400007005001700011008004100028020001800069020001100087040002500098041000800123082000800131100001800139245011700157260003100274300001100305490002900316520097100345700003101316856002401347119113OSt20240403140135.0240403b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 ENG d  a9780199536917  qbroch.  aBR-BrIDEAcBR-BrIDEA  aeng  a843  aZola, Émile10aThe masterpiececÉmile Zola ; translated by Thomas Walton ; transaltion revised and inroduced by Roger Pearson  aOxfordbOxford Pressc2008  a637 p.  aOxford world´s classics  aThe Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his model and wife Christine and their deformed child Jacques - issacrificed on the altar of Art. The Masterpiece is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it provides a unique insight into his career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despite the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public.  aWalton, Thomasetranslator  u000034/00003423.jpg