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20042111902158503106Chiku ma shobo 2004. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 459p. Size: 15cm Chiku ma shobo paperback
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25Book. Hardcover. 1938 one volume edition from Walter J. Black publishers in good clean 676 page hardcover!! wow. Hardcover
1874Flo16<p><strong>ZOLA FLAUBERT Gustave 1821-1880</strong></p><p>Autograph letter signed " Gve Flaubert " to Émile Zola<br />N.p.n.d Croisset 26th May 1874 1 p. in-8° on blue laid paper<br />Tear on fold old trace of previous mounting</p><p>And</p><p>Autograph letter signed " Gve Flaubert " to Émile Zola<br />Croisset près Rouen 3rd June Croisset 3 juin 1874 4 pp. in-8° on laid paper<br />Three words underlines by Alexandrine Zola old trace of previous mounting</p><p><strong>Set of two letters on <em>La Conquête de Plassans</em> forming undoubtedly Flaubert's most detailed critique of a novel by his friend Zola</strong></p><p>First letter</p><p><em>" Mardi soir.</em><br /><strong><em>C'est très fort ! mon brave homme ! Je l'ai lu tout d'une haleine & j'en suis étourdi.</em></strong><br /><em>Dans 8 jours je le relirai lentement ! p</em>ou<em>r voir si j'ai raison d'être enthousiasmé.</em><br /><em>J'ai reçu un g</em>ran<em>d choc comme d'une machine électrique.</em><br /><em>Vous ne serez pas poursuivi. <strong>La poésie vous sauvera</strong>. Mais je comprends les terreurs du jeune Charpentier.</em><br /><em>à dimanche une longue bavette sur votre truculent bouquin.</em><br /><em>tout à vous</em><br /><em>Gve Flaubert</em><br /><em>Je trouve Barbané très médiocre de fond & de forme" quoi qu'on dise ". Celui-là par exemple je ne le relirai pas. Je le sais. "</em></p><p>Second letter</p><p><em>" <strong>Je l'ai lue " La Conquête de Plassans " lue tout d'une haleine comme on avale un bon verre de vin puis ruminée – & maintenant mon cher ami j'en peux causer sciemment.</strong></em><br /><strong><em>J'avais peur après Le Ventre de Paris que vous ne vous enfonciez dans le système dans le parti pris. Mais non ! Allons vous êtes un gaillard ! et votre dernier livre est un crâne bouquin !</em></strong><br /><em>Peut-être manque-t-il d'un milieu proéminent d'une scène centrale chose qui n'arrive jamais dans la nature et peut-être aussi y a-t-il un peu trop de dialogues dans les parties accessoires ! Voilà en vous épluchant bien tout ce que je trouve à dire – de défavorable – mais quelle observation ! quelle profondeur ! quelle poigne !</em><br /><em>Ce qui me frappe c'est d'abord le ton général du livre la cette férocité de passion sous une surface bonhomme. Cela est fort mon vieux très fort râblé & bien portant.</em><br /><strong><em>Quel joli bourgeois que ce Mouret avec sa curiosité son avarice sa résignation p. 183-184 et son aplatissement ! L'abbé Faujas est sinistre et grand – un vrai directeur ! Comme il manie bien la femme comme il s'empare bien habilement de celle-là en la prenant par la charité puis en la brutalisant !</em></strong><br /><em>Quant à elle Marthe je ne saurais vous dire combien elle me semble réussie & l'art que je trouve au développement de son caractère ou plutôt de sa maladie. J'ai parti surtout remarqué les pages 194 215 et 227 261 264 267. – <strong>Son état hystérique son aveu final p. 350 & sq. est une merveille. Comme le ménage se dissout bien ! Comme elle se détache de tout et en même temps son moi son fond. Il y a là une science de dissolution profonde.</strong></em><br /><em>J'oublie de vous parler des Trouche – qui sont adorables comme canailles – & de l'abbé Bourette</em> Bourrette<em> exquis avec sa peur & sa sensibilité.<br />La vie de province les jardins qui se regardent le ménage Paloque les Rastoil & les parties de raquette parfait parfait.<br /><strong>Vous avez des détails excellents des phrases des mots qui sont des bonheurs</strong> page 17 " … la tonsure comme une cicatrice " 181 " j'aimerais mieux qu'il allât voir les femmes " 89 " Mouret avait bourré le poêle " etc.<br />Et le Cercle de la jeunesse ! Voilà une invention vraie.<br />J'ai noté en marge bien d'autres endroits.<br />– Les détails physiques qu'Olympe donne sur son frère – la fraise<br />– La mère de l'abbé prête à devenir sa maquerelle 152 – et son coffre ! 338.<br />– <strong>L'âpreté du prêtre qui repousse les mouchoirs de sa pauvre amante parce que cela sent " une odeur de femme "</strong>.<br />– " Au fond des sacristies le nom de Mr Delangre… " et toute la phrase qui est un bijou.<br /><strong>Mais ce qui écrase tout – ce qui couronne l'œuvre c'est la fin !</strong> Je ne connais rien de plus empoignant que ce dénouement. La visite de Marthe chez son oncle – le retour de Mouret & l'inspection qu'il fait de sa maison ! La peur vous prend comme à la lecture d'un conte fantastique & vous arrivez à cet effet-là par l'excès de la réalité par l'intensité du vrai ! Le lecteur sent que la tête lui tourne comme à Mouret lui-même.<br />L'insensibilité des bourgeois qui contemplent l'incendie assis sur des fauteuils est charmante. & vous finissez par un trait sublime : l'apparition de la soutane de l'abbé Serge au chevet de sa mère mourante comme une consolation ou comme un châtiment !<br />Une chicane cependant. Le lecteur qui n'a pas de mémoire ne sait pas quel instinct pousse à agir comme ils font Me Rougon et l'oncle Macquart. Deux paragraphes d'explications eussent été suffisants. N'importe ça y est et je vous remercie du plaisir que<br />vous m'avez fait.<br />Dormez sur vos deux oreilles c'est une œuvre<br /><strong>Mettez de côté p</strong></em>ou<strong><em>r moi toutes les bêtises qu'elle inspirera. Ce genre de documents m'intéresse.</em></strong><em><br />Je vous serre la main très fort & suis<br />vous n'en doutez pas<br />vôtre<br />Gve Flaubert "</em></p><p>The fourth volume of <em>Rougon-Maquart</em> <em>La Conquête de Plassans</em> was published in the spring of 1874 by Charpentier and tells the story of Father Faujas a Bonapartist priest ready to do anything to reconquer the city of Plassans fallen into the hands of the legitimists royalists. In this violent attack on the clergy Zola depicts a Church complicit in political power manipulative using the naive piety of the faithful especially women through practices where faith is in fact only a veil masking other ambitions.</p><p>Flaubert first emits a brief hot reaction after a first reading having left him "dizzy". He says he is "shocked" and rightly so because he will a week later give himself to a criticism this time without reservation going so far as to quote passages on the recently published novel of his friend Zola.<br />It should be noted that it is not without some apprehension that Flaubert undertakes the reading of this fourth volume of <em>Rougon-Macquart</em> having succeeded the much maligned <em>Ventre de Paris</em>. He does not hide it this last novel had displeased him because according to him being too deeply in the naturalist doctrine the "system the bias" through the small Parisian people.<br /><em>La Conquête de Plassans</em> offers a different romantic formula.<br />We also notice that Flaubert revels in the way the bourgeoisie is portrayed the same provincial bourgeoisie he himself had mocked in his previous works : <em>Madame Bovary</em> and <em>L'Éducation sentimentale</em>.<br />Finally emphasizing the Abbot's hold on the Mouret couple and more particularly on Marthe whose decline will sink into madness Flaubert appreciates with what scientific precision and coldness Zola describes the ravages of the imbalance that strikes the two characters.</p><p><u>Bibliography:</u><br />Gustave Flaubert <em>Correspondance</em> éd. Jean Bruneau Pléiade t. IV p. 801 first letter<br />Gustave Flaubert <em>Correspondance</em> éd. Jean Bruneau Pléiade t. IV pp. 805-806 second letter<br />Flaubert <em>Correspondance</em> éd. René Descharmes Le Centenaire t. III pp. 541-543 second letter</p><p><u>Provenance:</u><br />Émile Zola's personal collection<br />Then Alexandrine Zola by descent<br />Then famille Le Blond-Zola by descent</p>
1911003257New York: The Warren Press 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Set of 7 of Emile Zola's Works. First American editions. Published by the Warren Press New York 1911. Measure approximately 5.25" x 7.75". The books are in fair condition. Wear sunning and soiling to the boards. Some dings to the board edges. Paper losses at the spines with handwritten titles in ink. Previous owner's notation of "1916" on the front endpapers of "Tragic Love" "Buried Alive" "The Flood" and "Death" which also has handwritten notations throughout the textblock. The hinges and bindings are starting. Gentle toning to the contents with some soiling and staining. The titles contained in this set are: "Death" "The Flood" "Shell-fish" "The Embezzler" "Buried Alive" "Love's Chase" "A Tragic Love" Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #I7-10. The Warren Press hardcover
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20141-3955634213Leseklassiker 2014. Paperback. New. 380 pages. German language. 8.27x5.83x0.86 inches. Leseklassiker paperback
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196015295EDEN 1960. 1. softcover. EDEN paperback
1988187074Frankfurt Germany: Athenaum 1988. Hardcover. VG light rubbing to corners & spine edges. tightly bound. dustjacket has light toning creasing to spine top & slight tear to lower corner. black boards w/ white spine printing. 294 pgs. glossy white dustjacket w/ orange & maroon printing illustration. text in German. Appears lightly read or unread. Athenaum hardcover
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B23161-FThe Citadel Press. Collectible - Very Good. 1955 1st US. Black cloth w/gilt lettering. Book is in very nice condition clean and sound. Dust jacket has light soil to rear panel and very light edgewear. Original price on dj flap is crossed out in ink and another price written in same area. The Citadel Press hardcover
19150New York. 1955. Citadel Press. 1st of This Particular Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Translated from the French by David Hughes & Marie-Jacqueline Mason. Preface by Hugh Shelley. 296 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Pagram. keywords: Europe France Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Zola's theme in Savage Paris is the contrast which he sees as a conflict between the �lean and hungry' of this world and those that �are fat and sleep o'nights'; between the ascetic and the sensualist the idealist and the materialist the revolutionary and the conservative. Set in the great Parisian market Les Halles the book shows the impact on a complacent middle-class family the Quenu's of a lean fanatical idealist ex-political prisoner. Florent Quenu's half-brother who has suffered gaol and transportation for his share in the Revolution of 1848 is at first pitied and made welcome for the Quenus are. by their lights kindly folk; they try to tame him and persuade him to take the respectable job as inspector in the Halles. Florent utterly unworldly fails to satisfy them to compromise with corruption or to make allowances for the petty intrigues and rivalries around him; he antagonises Quenu's wife Lise by his friendship with her rival Louise the fishwife; and far from abandoning his subversive beliefs he joins a small group of left-wingers who eventually plot an uprising against the Emperor. The book ends tragically with Florent being taken back to gaol while the superficial calm and prosperity that mask the inner corruption of the place return as the scum forms again on a pond after a stone has momentarily disturbed it. And the last word is spoken by Claude Lantier the painter who throughout acts as chorus viewing the whole scene with an artist's detachment; �What rascals these respectable people are'! The most striking feature of the book is the exuberant and sustained descriptive power which gives us the appearance and atmosphere of the great market in all its aspects-gives us its shapes and colours and its very smells a triumph both of realism and of imagination. It is almost 50 years since Le Venire de Paris the book's original title was available in an English edition and this sensitive and accomplished translation at last conveys to the English reader Zola's special genius in its full maturity. inventory #19150 hardcover
1957092357New York : Citadel Press 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Black cloth with spine titles in gilt. Octavo. 296 pages. Nice bright copy interior clean. No marks bookplates etc. Top edge has some very light spotting. In a bright dust jacket with the publisher's $3.50 price on the inside flap. Jacket has a little soiling on the rear panel otherwise fine. see my photo Jacket is in a mylar protector. All books shipped in boxes. <br/> <br/> Citadel Press hardcover
19553591NY: Citadel Press 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. 296pp. DJ: Very Good w/ minute edge wears. The Book: Very Good. Translated by David Hughes & Marie-Jacqueline Mason. <br/> <br/> Citadel Press hardcover
