His Excellency EugA¨ne Rougon
by
A?mile Zola
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Oxford World's Classics
ISBN-10
0198748256
ISBN-13
9780198748250
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 26th, 2018
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
274 grams
Dimensions
12.80 x 19.50 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)Fiction in translation
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His Excellency Eugène Rougon is the sixth in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. Here, the novel presents a detailed picture of court and political circles during the Second Empire, satirizing the corruption and cronyism at its heart.
''He loved power for power''s sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.'' His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola''s twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper échelons of French Second Empire society, including the Imperial court, it focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of the authoritarian Eugène Rougon, the ''vice-Emperor''. But it is more than just a chronicle. It plunges the reader into the essential dynamics of the political: the rivalries, the scheming, the jockeying for position, the ups and downs, the play of interests, the lobbying and gossip, the patronage and string-pulling, the bribery and blackmail, and, especially, the manipulation of language for political purposes. The novel''s themes-especially its treatment of political discourse-have remarkable contemporary resonance. His Excellency Eugène Rougon is about politics everywhere.
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