recently discovered this. i have but haven't read Germinal and was looking up the book that the film Human Desire was based on (bete humaine) and, hey ho, here's a set of 20 books and i do love a list.
Oxford World Classics has translated all of them recently, surprisingly the first full translation since 18xx, which was half-arsed by all accounts. penguin has 8 or so of them, much cheaper. but they are all 600+ pages. i should read the one i already have, see how it goes.
― koogs, Sunday, 22 October 2023 12:19 (ten months ago) link
my favourite writer!I attempted to blog my way through Les Rougon-Macquart a while back, here's the ones I got throughintroduction#1 – La Fortune des Rougon (1871)#2 – La Curée (1871-2)#3 – Le Ventre de Paris (1873)#4 – La Conquête de Plassans (1874)#5 – La Faute de l’abbé Mouret (1875)
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 22 October 2023 12:45 (ten months ago) link
fuck off gareth
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 22 October 2023 12:52 (ten months ago) link
i think you might have more choice of translation now
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/series/oxford-world-s-classics-12
https://www.penguin.co.uk/search-results?tab=books&q=Emile-Zola&x9=author&q9=Emile-Zola 7 here
― koogs, Sunday, 22 October 2023 16:03 (ten months ago) link
Haven't read his books, but was recently impressed by his heroic part in the Dreyfus Affair, which may have cost him his life---see epic wiki article on the Affair.
― dow, Monday, 23 October 2023 00:12 (ten months ago) link