A painter of enormous ambition cannot finish the picture that would prove him, and his friend the novelist watches. Zola put himself and Cézanne into it; Cézanne read the book, wrote a cold note of thanks, and never spoke to him again.

A painter of enormous ambition cannot finish the picture that would prove him, and his friend the novelist watches. Zola put himself and Cézanne into it; Cézanne read the book, wrote a cold note of thanks, and never spoke to him again.
Englisch

Thérèse Raquin

Germinal

Germinal : A Coal Strike in Northern France

Abbé Mouret's Transgression : A Young Priest Between Faith and Nature

Lourdes : Five Days on the White Train

The Rush for the Spoil : Speculation in Haussmann's Paris

The Joy of Life : A Novel of Kindness and Its Cost

L'Assommoir : A Laundress and Drink in the Goutte-d'Or

His Excellency : A Minister of the Second Empire

The Soil : A Beauce Farm Divided Among Children

Rome : A Priest's Manuscript on the Index