شاهکار فارسی 1401

In no other novel has Zola put so much of himself as in L'Œuvre. Zola, the art critic, friend of Cézanne, and fervent defender, against official art, of Manet, of Monet, and of all the avant-garde that Claude Lantier embodies in the novel. Zola, the naturalist writer, dreams of giving his entire existence “to a work where we would try to place things, beasts, men, the immense ark”. Zola, the man finally, and the daily sufferings of creation are seen through the permanent dissatisfaction and the anxiety of the decline of a brilliant painter and a hardworking novelist. A novel of the passion for art to the detriment of life and love, The Work depicts both the enthusiasm of an artistic revolution and the eternal drama of the artist struggling with creation.