Viaje circular

Por Emile Zola

"Hace ocho días que Luciano Bérard y Hortensia Larivière están casados. La madre de la novia, viuda del señor Larivière, que posee, desde hace treinta años, un comercio de juguetes y bisutería en la calle de la Chaussée d’Antin, es una mujer seca y angulosa, de carácter despótico, que no pudo negar la mano de su hija a Luciano, único heredero de un quincallero del barrio; pero que tiene intenciones de vigilar, constantemente y muy de cerca, al nuevo matrimonio. En el contrato, la señora Larivière ha cedido a su hija la tienda completa, reservándose apenas una habitación de su casa, pero en realidad es ella misma quien continúa dirigiéndolo todo con pretexto de poner a sus hijos al corriente de la venta."

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Émile Zola
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 22 feb 2017
• ISBN: 9788826028279

Emile Zola

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist, journalist, and playwright. Born in Paris to a French mother and Italian father, Zola was raised in Aix-en-Provence. At 18, Zola moved back to Paris, where he befriended Paul Cézanne and began his writing career. During this early period, Zola worked as a clerk for a publisher while writing literary and art reviews as well as political journalism for local newspapers. Following the success of his novel Thérèse Raquin (1867), Zola began a series of twenty novels known as Les Rougon-Macquart, a sprawling collection following the fates of a single family living under the Second Empire of Napoleon III. Zola’s work earned him a reputation as a leading figure in literary naturalism, a style noted for its rejection of Romanticism in favor of detachment, rationalism, and social commentary. Following the infamous Dreyfus affair of 1894, in which a French-Jewish artillery officer was falsely convicted of spying for the German Embassy, Zola wrote a scathing open letter to French President Félix Faure accusing the government and military of antisemitism and obstruction of justice. Having sacrificed his reputation as a writer and intellectual, Zola helped reverse public opinion on the affair, placing pressure on the government that led to Dreyfus’ full exoneration in 1906. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902, Zola is considered one of the most influential and talented writers in French history.