For a Night of Love -- Selected Short Stories by Zola

Author: (French) émile Zola (Zola, E.) written by Hao Yun, Wang Zhensun translated
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Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features: In French and world literary history, apart from his fame as a novelist, émile Zola also achieved great success in short and middle-length fiction. This book selects 21 excellent works, including "For One Night's Love," "The Faceless," "Natas," and "The Millers' War." These masterpieces basically reflect the wide range of subjects in Zola's short and middle-length fiction, covering all aspects of French social life at the time, and embodying his realism and naturalism. They allow readers to witness the development of the master's artistic views and writing techniques. This book includes 21 masterpieces by the famous French writer émile Zola, such as "For One Night's Love," "The Faceless," "Natas," and "The Millers' War." These works demonstrate the broad range of subjects in Zola's short and middle-length fiction, encompassing various aspects of French social life at the time, and reflecting the author's realism and naturalism. Among them, "Semple," "Blood," and "The Poor Woman's Sister" are selected from Zola's lifetime single-volume work "The Story of Né?"; "The Faceless" and "The Victim of an Advertisement" provide a sharp critique of the bourgeoisie's "unscrupulous free trade"; "Captain Billier" illustrates the loss of honor and heroism in the military through the downfall of an officer; "For One Night's Love" and "Né?s Micolet" deal with the themes of "studies on lust," which are particularly favored by naturalists; "The Flood" tells the story of a farmer fighting against a flood in isolation and nearly losing his entire family, truly documenting the harm caused by natural disasters to the people under the capitalist system.