#émile zola

[1five1two]

While the storm was erupting, she stayed, staring at it, watching the shafts of lightning, like someone who could see serious things, far away in the future in these sudden flashes of light.

Émile Zola

#quotes #writing #Émile Zola

[leggerezza-dell-essere]

Le parole pesano così poco davanti all’onnipotenza dei fatti.

Émile Zola

#Émile Zola #citazioni #quote #Fatti

[jareckiworld]

Orla Muff (1903-1984) — “Nana”  [oil on canvas, 1934]

#Orla Muff #danish art #art deco #Émile Zola

[postcard-from-the-past]

Transfer of the remains of Émile Zola, a French novelist and playwright, to the Panthéon in Paris on 4 June 1908

French vintage postcard

#vintage #panthon #tarjeta #4 june 1908 #briefkaart #panthéon #novelist #postcard #photography #postal #émile zola #carte postale #june #sepia #zola #ephemera #playwright #historic #paris #french #ansichtskarte #transfer #remains #postkarte #1908 #mile #postkaart #photo

[professeur-stump]

S'essayer au village

　Non, je le crois plutôt dans un coin de la plaine, au bord du ruisseau. Il est si petit qu'un rideau de peupliers le cache à tous les yeux. Ses chaumières disparaissent dans les oseraies de la rive. Un bout de prairie verte lui sert de tapis; une haie vive le clôt de toutes parts, comme un grand jardin. On passe à côté de lui sans le voir. Les voix des laveuses sonnent, semblables à des voix de fauvettes. Pas un filet de fumée. Il dort dans sa paix, au fond de son alcôve verte. 　Aucun de nous ne le connaît. La ville voisine sait à peine qu'il existe, et il est si humble que pas un géographe ne s'est soucié de lui.

(Émile Zola, Le Petit village, Nouveaux contes à Ninon, 1870)

#Émile Zola #Tro de mi el

[hyperions-fate]

Men were springing forth, a black avenging army, germinating slowly in the furrows, growing towards the harvests of the next century, and their germination would soon overturn the earth.

Émile Zola, Germinal (1885)

#Émile Zola #Germinal #French literature

[careful-disorder]

Édouard Manet, Portrait of Émile Zola

“A Japanese screen on the left of the picture recalls the role that the Far East played in revolutionizing ideas on perspective and colour in European painting.” 

#édouard manet #émile zola #japanese art #impressionism

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Oui.

#émile zola #kiki de la petite flaque

[blinkbones]

Nana, Émile Zola

Finally getting some French lit in. To be completely honest, I've had this book for almost a decade, and I never read it. Well, actually, apparently I tried at some point, because I found some underlined bits very early on -- but it's clear that I gave up. I remember struggling with it back then. I didn't, this time. It's nice to see proof of my improvement, although I'm not sure what specific skill is concerned.

For a quick & anachronistic summary, it's the story of a 19th century escort girl who makes it big in paris.

I was actually surprised by how easy to read this was. I kind of expected very difficult language. It is poetic, but not actually difficult. The text is easy to follow, almost journalistic. Poetic journalism.

I really, really enjoyed Nana. It's a long ride, and what a ride. It reads, at times, like a soap opera, with how she has a roster of desperate men orbiting around her. She really is the sun of her novel -- and it is her novel. I entered this book ignorantly (despite being French and a ~lit student, I'm not actually well-versed in my country's literature) and it kept surprising me. Where I expected a moralizing tale, or at least a pessimistic outlook on the arrogant seductress, I got the unstoppable, inescapable success of Nana. It's almost a power fantasy, although I doubt Zola saw it through this angle. I mean, it does end badly. Spoilers, but she fully dies in a disfiguring manner. And there is this underlying theme of Nana, the beautiful Venus from the lower classes, bringing the rot of the sewers to the silk sheets of the aristocracy. She all but ruins the entire upper class with the raw power of her sex-appeal, and I thought that there was something cosmic about it. By the time she's at her apex, she herself does not have control of her situation. She becomes like an empire, constantly conquering further reaches to maintain peace and prosperity throughout her imperial reign. She devours. And yet she's so incredibly human. She felt to me like a deity unaware of its power, and, in that sense, her death (especially because it's in the full bloom of her youth and legendary status) felt more like a shedding of the mortal form. Admittedly, I also just find it more fun to interpret it that way. I'm reading for fun, after all. Ah, the specter of academic seriousness hangs over me.

I think Nana is an easy entry point into that sort of literature. Yes, it's part of some long-ass series, but no, you don't need to read the previous books (I didn't). It's very self-contained. It's a long, very eventful ride, through Nana's chaotic and glamorous world. It's long but it feels like going downhill on a bike, and like everything's going too fast still. And it's fucking funny.

And for you, tumblr, my beloved, yes, you will find some messy queers in there. I only talked about Nana herself here, but Nana holds a whole ensemble cast of secondary characters, many interesting women (a wealth of them, really), that are really a whole other serving of delights that I just didn't have time to talk about here. But seriously, just about every character, especially the women, is interesting.

#i added white borders to make the bad quality more bearable but i think it somehow looks ever blurrier. blaming the tumblr post editor #nana #emile zola #émile zola #french literature #french lit #littérature #litblr #readblr #bookblr #les rougon-macquart #rougon-macquart #bones reads #chatterbones #my faves were satin (toxic) zoé (girlboss) labordette (ma fouine préférée) and actually the count (pathetic little sinner) #the last scene with all the women and their strange conversation is something i'm still pondering #in a good way #for context i think i finished it just a bit under two weeks ago #but still thinking about nana and about so many of the characters #it took me so long to mull it over enough to write this review that i had the time to finish two short reads in the meantime loollll #anyway. if it sounds intriguing to you you should read it #19th century literature

[philoursmars]

Louvre-Lens : il y a une expo : “Mondes souterrains : 20.000 Lieux sous la terre”. la suite et fin.

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme : paysage du Erzgebirge, deux mineurs en prière avant leur descente à la mine - 1826

François Kupka : "Remontée au jour des revenants de Courrières" - 1906 (survivants d'un des plus gros coups de grisou des mines françaises : 13 rescapés, plus de 1000 morts)

Paul-Emile Colin - illustration pour "Germinal" d'Emile Zola - 1912

Constantin Meunier : "Mineur à la hache" - 1901

Auguste Corriol - photos de mineurs vers 1900

#louvre-lens #expo #mondes souterrains #20.000 lieux sous la terre #mine #mineurs #oehme #ernst ferdinand oehme #erzgebirge #kupka #françois kupka #courrières #zola #émile zola #germinal #paul-émile colin #corriol #cart postale #auguste corriol #meunier #constantin meunier #anzin #carvin #lens #douai #escarpelle #coup de grisou

[castelnou]

#quote #english #émile zola #biblio

[sesiondemadrugada]

Human Desire (Fritz Lang, 1954).

#human desire (1954) #human desire #fritz lang #glenn ford #gloria grahame #alfred hayes #émile zola #burnett guffey #aaron stell #robert peterson #william kiernan #jean louis

[walterkov]

► In Secret (2013)

#in secret #Laurent LeClaire #oscar isaac #walterkov #perioddramagif #perioddramaedit #gif #Émile Zola

[gobcorend]

"As they have dared, so shall I dare. Dare to tell the truth, as I have pledged to tell it, in full, since the normal channels of justice have failed to do so. My duty is to speak out; I do not wish to be an accomplice in this travesty. My nights would otherwise be haunted by the spectre of the innocent man, far away, suffering the most horrible of tortures for a crime he did not commit" - Émile Zola, J'accuse! (1898)

No Shit Sherlock!

#palestine #free gaza #free palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #we stand with palestine #ceasefire #israel #gaza strip #gaza #joe biden #biden administration #jerusalem #netenyahu #quotes #Émile Zola #thruth #hope #Instagram

[expectoro]

In Secret (2013) dir. Charlie Stratton

#autorias #in secret #charlie stratton #oscar isaac #elizabeth olsen #thérèse raquin #tom felton #jessica lange #émile zola #romance #thriller #period drama

[professeur-stump]

Virginie, renversée avec un air de princesse, les yeux demi-clos, suivait toujours le lavage, lâchant des réflexions. — Encore un peu à droite. Maintenant, faites bien attention à la boiserie… Vous savez, je n'ai pas été très contente, samedi dernier. Les taches étaient restées. Et tous les deux, le chapelier et l'épicière, se carraient davantage, comme sur un trône, tandis que Gervaise se traînait à leurs pieds, dans la boue noire.

(Émile Zola, L'Assommoir)

#Émile Zola #Tro de mi el