Savage Paris / Émile Zola, translated from the French by David Hughes and Marie-Jacqueline Mason. Preface by Hugh Shelley
1955, 1st UK Edition. London: Elek Books. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, not price clipped, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #344842
Physical description: 296 pages 20 cm. Summary: "Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and bourgeois flats. Living with his brother's family in the newly rebuilt Les Halles market, Florent is soon caught up in a dangerous maelstrom of food and politics. Amid intrigue among the market's sellers - the fishmonger, the charcutiere, the fruit girl, and the cheese vendor - and the glorious culinary bounty of their labors, we see the dramatic difference between "fat and thin" (the rich and the poor) and how the widening gulf between them strains a city to the breaking point.". Subjects: French fiction 19th century.
Paris (France); Fiction.
France Paris. Literature novels France 19th century.
Price: €150.00