His Excellency Eugene Rougon EPUB

by Emile Zola

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'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.'His Excellency EugÃ¨ne Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle.

A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper Ã©chelons of French Second Empire society, including the Imperial court, it focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of the authoritarian EugÃ¨ne Rougon, the 'vice-Emperor'.

But it is more than just a chronicle. It plunges the reader into the essential dynamics of the political: the rivalries, the scheming, thejockeying for position, the ups and downs, the play of interests, the lobbying and gossip, the patronage and string-pulling, the bribery and blackmail, and, especially, the manipulation of language for political purposes.

The novel's themes-especially its treatment of political discourse-have remarkable contemporaryresonance.

His Excellency EugÃ¨ne Rougon is about politics everywhere.

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Pages:416 pages
Publisher:OUP Oxford
Publication Date:07/03/2018
Category:
- Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
- Fiction in translation
ISBN:9780191065163

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