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Subject(s)

• Paris (France)—Fiction [Browse]

Related name

• Nelson, Brian [Browse]

Series

Oxford world's classics. [More in this series]

Summary note

Respectable people... What bastards!'Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marché des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand programme of urban reconstruction to make way for Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the Government, Florentattempts an insurrection. Les Halles, apocalyptic and destructive, play an active role in Zola's picture of a world in which food and the injustice of society are inextricably linked.The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third volume in Zola's famous cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart. It introduces the painter Claude Lantier and in its satirical representation of the bourgeoisie and capitalism complements Zola's other great novels of social conflict and urban poverty.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-287).

Other title(s)

Ventre de Paris

ISBN

• 0-19-192322-2
• 1-281-14692-7
• 9786611146924
• 0-19-151747-X
• 1-4356-3876-X

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