His Excellency Eugene Rougon e-bog
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'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.'His Excellency Eugne 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 chelons of French Second Empire society, including the Imperial court, it focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of the authoritarian Eugne Ro...
E-bog
63,40 DKK
Forlag
OUP Oxford
Udgivet
7 marts 2018
Længde
416 sider
Genrer
2ADF
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780191065163
'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.'His Excellency Eugne 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 chelons of French Second Empire society, including the Imperial court, it focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of the authoritarian Eugne 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, thejockeying 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 contemporaryresonance. His Excellency Eugne Rougon is about politics everywhere.