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The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels... Read Full Overview

First serialized in French in 1885, ?mile Zola's "The Masterpiece" is the story of naturalist painter Claude Lantier and is believed to be a highly fictionalized account of Zola's real-life friendship with the painter Paul C?zanne. The fictional artist of Zola's Bohemian world,... Read Full Overview

L'OEuvre est un roman d' mile Zola publi en 1886, le quatorzi me volume de la s rie Les Rougon-Macquart. L'ouvrage nous entra ne dans le monde de l'art et des artistes, travers le portrait d'un peintre maudit, Claude Lantier, dont le personnage voque Paul C zanne, grand ami... Read Full Overview

Claude Lanthier est un peintre rempli de g nie mais qui est incapable de terminer ses oeuvres car il ne veut que faire des chefs-d'oeuvre. Il est compl tement obs d par l'oeuvre ultime qu'il en vient n gliger son entourage.Le quatorzi me volume de la s rie des Rougon-Macquart... Read Full Overview

His Masterpiece

By Emile Zola

Translated by Mary J Serrano

L'oeuvre is the fourteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Emile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas beginning in December 1885 before being published in novel form... Read Full Overview

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels... Read Full Overview

This controversial novel, set in the art world of Paris, has been read as an attack on the Impressionist painters who had been Zola's friends

Claude passait devant l'H tel de ville, et deux heures du matin sonnaient l'horloge, quand l'orage clata. Il s' tait oubli r der dans les Halles, par cette nuit br lante de juillet, en artiste fl neur, amoureux du Paris nocturne: Brusquement, les gouttes tomb rent si larges,... Read Full Overview

L'oeuvre is the fourteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by mile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas beginning in December 1885 before being published in novel form by Charpentier in 1886. The title, translated literally as "The Work" (as in work... Read Full Overview

The Masterpiece is a highly fictionalized account of Zola's friendship with the painter Paul C zanne. Zola and C zanne grew up together in Aix-en-Provence, the model for Zola's Plassans, where Claude Lantier is born and receives his education. Like C zanne, Claude Lantier is... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels... Read Full Overview

L'OEuvre is the fourteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by ?mile Zola. The title is often rendered in English as The Masterpiece or His Masterpiece. It refers to the struggles of the protagonist Claude Lantier to paint a great work reflecting his talent and genius. L'OEuvre... Read Full Overview