His Masterpiece
Kindle Edition
Start Publishing LLC · Ebook · January 24, 2013
The Masterpiece is a highly fictionalized account of Zola's friendship with the painter Paul Cézanne.
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- Who it’s for
- Zola turns friendship and artistic misunderstanding into a layered meeting of fiction and real lives.
- Genres
- The Classics, European Fiction, Biographical Fiction
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, January 24, 2013
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The Masterpiece is a highly fictionalized account of Zola's friendship with the painter Paul Cézanne. Zola and Cézanne grew up together in Aix-en-Provence, the model for Zola's Plassans, where Claude Lantier is born and receives his education. Like Cézanne, Claude Lantier is a revolutionary artist whose work is misunderstood by an art-going public hidebound by traditional subjects, techniques, and representations.
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Zola's self-portrait can be seen in the character of the novelist Pierre Sandoz.
Art and Friendship
Zola turns friendship and artistic misunderstanding into a layered meeting of fiction and real lives.
Come here for
- A fictionalized friendship between Zola and Cézanne
- An artist’s struggle with a public bound to tradition
Expect
- A classic novel with recognizable echoes of Cézanne and Zola
- A clash between revolutionary art and traditional taste
Where it sits
| The Classics | 50% |
|---|---|
| Biographical Fiction | 48% |
| European Fiction | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Authors
- Émile Zola
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- January 24, 2013
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- The Classics