L'Ironie naturaliste: Zola et les paradoxes du serieux.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

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L'Ironie naturaliste: Zola et les paradoxes du serieux. By MARIE-ENGE VOISIN-FOUGERE. (Romantisme et Modernites, 40) Paris: Champion. 2001. 271 pp. 53.35 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0378-3.

This book aims to challenge the perception of Les Rougon-Macquart as earnest documentation of essentially serious subject matter. Rather, seriousness, and the supposedly transparent objectivity of its representation, are central to an ironic narrative mask adopted by Zola to expose...

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