The Debacle

Zola, Émile (Author)/ Tancock, Leonard (Introduction by)/ Tancock, Leonard (Translated by)

ISBN 10: 0140442804 / ISBN 13: 9780140442809

Published by Penguin Classics, 2006

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revised edition. 512 pages. 7.00x4.50x0.75 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # zk0140442804

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Debacle

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis:

Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together during the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, the pair are compelled to understand one other. Forging a profound friendship, they must struggle together to endure a disorganised and brutal war, the savage destruction of France's Second Empire and the fall of Napoleon III. One of the greatest of all war novels, The Debacle is the nineteenth novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A forceful and deeply moving tale of close friendship, it is also a fascinating chronicle of the events that were to lead, in the words of Zola himself, to 'the murder of a nation'.

About the Author:

Emile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist and critic, the founder of the Naturalist movement in literature. Among Zola's most important works is his famous Rougon-Macquart cycle (1871-1893), which included such novels as L'Assomoir (1877), about the suffering of the Parisian working-class, Nana (1880), dealing with prostitution, and Germinal (1885).