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His Masterpiece by Émile Zola

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His Masterpiece

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Émile Zola

Start Publishing LLC · Ebook · January 24, 2013

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The Masterpiece is a highly fictionalized account of Zola's friendship with the painter Paul Cézanne.

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Authors
Émile Zola
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Published
January 24, 2013
Format
Ebook
Theme
The Classics
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The Classics

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The Masterpiece is a highly fictionalized account of Zola's friendship with the painter Paul Cézanne. Zola and Cézanne grew up together in Aix-en-Provence, the model for Zola's Plassans, where Claude Lantier is born and receives his education. Like Cézanne, Claude Lantier is a revolutionary artist whose work is misunderstood by an art-going public hidebound by traditional subjects, techniques, and representations. Zola's self-portrait can be seen in the character of the nove...

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The Masterpiece is a highly fictionalized account of Zola's friendship with the painter Paul Cézanne. Zola and Cézanne grew up together in Aix-en-Provence, the model for Zola's Plassans, where Claude Lantier is born and receives his education. Like Cézanne, Claude Lantier is a revolutionary artist whose work is misunderstood by an art-going public hidebound by traditional subjects, techniques, and representations. Zola's self-portrait can be seen in the character of the novelist Pierre Sandoz.

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