The Masterpiece
A Fiction, 19th Century, Classics book. From the moment I start a new novel, lifes just one endless torture....
The tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude’s originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life—in the form of his model and wife Christine and their deformed child Jacques—is sacrificed on the altar of Art.The Masterpiece is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series and provides a unique insight into Zola’s relationship with Cézanne. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to the prominence despite the conservatism of the Academy and the...
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- Pages: 364 pages
- ISBN: 9780199536917 / 199536910
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The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it's robbed me of my mother, my wife, and everything that meant anything to me. It's like a germ planted in the skull that devours the brain, spreads to the trunk and the limbs, and destroys the entire body in time. No sooner am I out of bed in the morning than work clamps down on me and pins me to my desk before I've even had a breath of fresh air. It follows me to lunch and I find myself chewing over sentences as I'm chewing my food. It goes with me when I go out, eats out... Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong! mile Zola, The Masterpiece From the moment I start a new novel, lifes just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel theres still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied. I begin to say the books no good, far inferior to my earlier ones, until Ive wrung torture out of every page, every sentence, every word, and the very commas begin to look excruciatingly ugly. Then, when its finished, what a relief! Not the blissful delight of the gentleman who goes into ecstasies over his own...
This is Zola's most autobiographical novel and is the world of art and artists he knew well. His life long friend from school age was impressionist painter, Paul Cezanne. When he and Paul left Aix-en-Provence for Paris, Zola was introduced further into the art world and, in fact, was an art critic in his early years. Edouard Manet was... L'uvre/The Masterpiece is a wonderfully horrible tale of obsession which highlights and (in the case of Claude) amplifies the frustration, desperation and despair of 19th century artists at having their work rejected by the Paris Salon or disparaged by the viewing public.This was a re-read, and I decided to keep this review brief as... For most of us who know a little about Zolas life, the man is a hero. He is famous for denouncing the anti-Semitic persecution of Dreyfus, and hes a literary lion for his championing of a realism which portrayed French life warts and all and bravely spent a lifetime cocking a snook at the regime into the bargain. But in The Masterpiece...
