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Le Ventre de Paris [lə vɑ̃tʁ də paʁi] (1873) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. It is set in and around Les Halles, the enormous, busy central market of 19th Century Paris. Les Halles, rebuilt in cast iron and glass during the Second Empire was a landmark of modernity in the city, the wholesale and retail center of a thriving food industry. Le Ventre de Paris (translated into English under many variant titles but literally meaning The Belly of Paris) is Zola's first novel entirely on the working class. The protagonist is Florent, an escaped political prisoner mistakenly arrested after the French coup of 1851. He returns to his step-brother Quenu, a charcutier and his wife Lisa Quenu (formerly Macquart), with whom he finds refuge. They get him a job in the market as a fish inspector. After getting mixed up in an ineffectual socialist plot against the Empire, Florent is arrested and deported again. Although Zola had yet to hone his mastery of working-class speech and idioms displayed to such good effect in L'Assommoir, the novel conveys a powerful atmosphere of life in the great market halls and of working class suffering. There are a number of vivid descriptive passages, the most famous of which, his description of the olfactory sensations experienced upon entering a cheese shop, has become known as the "Cheese Symphony" due to its ingenious orchestral metaphors. Throughout the book, the painter Claude Lantier, a relative of the Macquarts and later the protagonist of L'Œuvre (1886) - shows up to provide a semi-authorial commentary, playing the role of chorus. It is an interesting and often powerful work, though not usually considered as being on a par with the novelist's achievements later in the Rougon-Macquart cycle. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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A Love Episode
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Au bonheur des dames
Claude's Confession
Contes à Ninon
Correspondance: Les lettres et les arts
Correspondance: Lettres de jeunesse
De drie steden: Lourdes
De drie steden: Parijs
Doctor Pascal
Ed. Manet: étude biographique et critique
English Translations Of Works Of Emile Zola An Index to the...
For a Night of Love
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
Fruitfulness
Germinal
Germinal
Hedelmällisyys: Romaani
His Excellency [Son Exc. Eugène Rougon]
His Masterpiece
Ihmispeto: Siveysromaani
Jacht naar Fortuin
Juutalaisten puolustukseksi
Kertomuksia
Kivihiilenkaivajat
La Bête humaine
La Conquête de Plassans
La Curée
La Débâcle
La Faute de l'abbé Mouret
L'Argent
L'Assommoir
L'Assommoir
L'Assommoir
La Terre
La vérité en marche: L'affaire Dreyfus
Le Docteur Pascal
Le Naturalisme au théâtre, les théories et les exemples
Le Rêve
Le Ventre de Paris
L'Œuvre
Lourdes
Money (L'Argent)
Naisten aarreaitta
Nana
Nantas
Neljä päivää
Nouveaux Contes à Ninon
Paris
Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel
Pot-Bouille
Raha Romaani
Rakkauden uhri
Rome
Rynnäkkö myllyä vastaan
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
Sota
The Attack on the Mill, and Other Sketches of War
The Conquest of Plassans (La Conquête de Plassans)
The Downfall
The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War
The Dream
The Fat and the Thin
The Fête At Coqueville 1907
The Flood
The Fortune of the Rougons
The Joy of Life [La joie de vivre]
The Ladies' Paradise
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The Monomaniac (La bête humaine)
Theresa Raquin
Thérèse Raquin
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The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5
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The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 3
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5
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Work [Travail]
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