Title : His Excellency Eugene Rougon - Emile Zola - book

Summary :

Here is a novel centered around a character, and this character himself lives only by and for politics. Here is a novel in which politics does not make an occasional appearance, as in Sentimental Education or even in Lucien Leuwen, but which, from the outset, sets out to show the government's backstage, both the official aspects of political life and its underbelly, taking us to a session of the Assembly and a Council of Ministers. A novel that presents political ambition as a fixed idea, as a passion mobilizing all of a man's strength. This is no small originality, at least at the end of the 19th century. Let us reassure ourselves, in fact, this whole story takes place under the Second Empire: no allusion to our time is to be feared. And yet...

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