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Synopsis
The Fat and the Thin is the third novel of Zola's twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series.
The Fat and the Thin is a study of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart. She has become prosperous, and increasingly selfish. Her brother-in-law Florent has escaped from penal servitude in Cayenne and lives for a short time in her house, but she becomes tired of his presence and ultimately denounces him to the police.
As a critic put it: "It also embraces a powerful allegory, the prose song of the eternal battle between the lean of this world and the fat -- a battle in which, as the author shows, the latter always come off successful."
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About the Author
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (1840 - 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'accuse. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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- PublisherAegypan
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1603123717
- ISBN 13 9781603123716
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages292
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