The Fortune of the Rougons (Rougon-Macquart #1)

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The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two branches of the family came about, and the origins of the hereditary weaknesses passed down the generations. Murder, treachery, and greed are the keynotes, and just as the Empire was established through violence, the "fortune" of the Rougons is paid for in blood.

Set in the fictitious Provençal town of Plassans, The Fortune of the Rougons tells the story of Silvère and Miette, two idealistic young supporters of the republican resistance to Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état of December 1851. They join the woodcutters and peasants of the Var to seize control of Plassans, and are opposed by the Bonapartist loyalists led by Silvère's uncle, Pierre Rougon. Meanwhile, the foundations of the Rougon family and its illegitimate Macquart branch are being laid in the brutal beginnings of the Imperial regime.

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on 9/8/23

Primeiro volume da série Les Rougon-Macquart. O cenário é uma pequena cidade chamada Plassans, que corresponde a Aix-en-Provence, onde Zola passou a infância e parte da juventude, e a Lorgues, onde ocorreram os eventos insurrecionais descritos em dezembro de 1851. Como Zola descreve em seu prefácio, é o romance das origens. Marca o início da genealogia Rougon-Macquart, que começa com Adélaïde Fouque, conhecida como tia Dide, nascida em 1768. Ela se casou com um certo Rougon, um jar... leia mais