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Tag: Zola

208. (Marcel Proust)

To illuminate Proust, consider Zola, who aspires, like Proust to a mythic scale, and whose novel Germinal is an epic … More

Proust, Sociology, the novel, Zola

85. (William Faulkner)

Two American authors in the 1920s set out on a common task, without knowing it. William Faulkner and Willa Cather … More

American Literature, Cormac McCarthy, Fenimore Cooper, Hawthorne, Scott, Thackeray, the Historical Novel, the novel, Tolstoy, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, William T. Vollman, Zola

75. (Émile Zola)

Here is the second part of the Zola post; undoubtedly shorter, as the fire of fresh reading has sputtered. But … More

French literature, Germinal, nineteenth-century French literature, Realism, the novel, Zola

74. (Émile Zola)

In the spirit of a reading journal, here’s the first of a two-part attempt to say something coherent about Zola’s … More

Auerbach, Classics, epic, French literature, George Eliot, Homer, nineteenth-century literature, Realism, the novel, Virgil, Zola
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