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Water Avoidance and Artistic Failure in Émile Zola’s L’œuvre
- The French Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 90, Number 2, December 2016
- pp. 13-23
- 10.1353/tfr.2016.0001
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
L’œuvre, one of Zola’s most autobiographical novels, narrates the tragic story of the aspiring painter Claude Lantier. This article argues that, contrary to appearances, Claude’s tragic demise can be attributed neither to family heredity (Claude’s eye lesion) nor the influence of Romanticism, but rather to his fear and repression of the natural element of water.
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