Perhaps the most autobiographical of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Masterpiece is a hard, bleak and raw portrait of unrecognised artistic genius. Claude Lantier, brother to Nana and son of Gervaise, is a struggling painter who dreams of conquering Paris’s art scene with his revolutionary ‘open air’ style of painting. Discouraged and mocked, Claude retreats to the countryside with a young woman from Clermont, with whom he has fallen in love, before returning to Paris, where he continues to experience rejection at every turn. Zola’s depiction of a frustrated artist is said to have The Masterpiece (EN) - Émile Zola od authora Émile Zola a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Émile Zola |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
15:35 |
| Rok vydání |
2015 |
| Žánr |
beletrie |
| Nakladatelství |
Naxos Audiobooks |
