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A Love Episode

Émile Zola

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"Rosalie is out," Helene began again, "but she will be here very soon. Her aunt tells me you are her sweetheart."

To this the little soldier vouchsafed no reply, but hung his head, laughing awkwardly, and scraping the carpet with the tip of his boot.

"Then you will have to marry her when you leave the army?" Helene continued questioning.

"Yes, to be sure!" exclaimed he, his face turning very red. "Yes, of course; we are engaged!" And, won over by the kindly manners of the lady, he made up his mind to speak out, his fingers still playing with his cap. "You know it's an old story. When we were quite children, we used to go thieving together. We used to get switched; oh yes, that's true! I must tell you that the Lacours and the Pichons lived in the same lane, and were next-door neighbors. And so Rosalie and myself were almost. . . Read More

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"O pagină de dragoste" este un roman tipic lui Emile Zola: este un roman în care educația joacă rolul principal. E vorba de acea educație (descrisă adesea prin sfiiciune) care primează ORICE, o educație care -după cum se va înfățișa (subtil) în roman- poate da naștere unei iubiri fără preget, deoare

Am tot fugit de cartea asta, se pare ca din cauza cuvântului "dragoste" din titlu, dar nici vorbă de prea mult romantism, O pagina de dragoste oscilează între naturalism și realism, așa cum m-a obișnuit Zola cu cele 3-4 romane citite înainte, nu avea de ce să-mi fie frica. Chiar dacă în alte opere,

A weaker link in the immense sequence, featuring a fragile child equalling Little Nell for most mawkish and most protracted death in literary history.

5stars for how much I enjoyed reading this lesser known Rougon-Macquart novel. I think after the despair and tragedy of The Assommoir it was a pleasure to read this lighter book (it still has tragedy of course (view spoiler)[Jeanne’s death, the doomed love between Helene and Henri (hide spoiler)]) : the wonderful descriptions of

Some extremely interesting, and remarkably well done, stuff going on here. Some far below the surface, some very much (and occasionally too much) in your face. The critique in the last 50 pages or so is brutal and unadorned. I genuinely felt my body tense in revulsion as the bourgeois performance ar

Pročitah da je Zola u jednom pismu napisao o ovom romanu "Bojim se da sam skrenuo s pravog puta i da pišem tonom koji ne dopušta nikakav utisak. Uspjeh će zacijelo biti osrednji. Htio sam da u mom ciklusu ima svih nota, iako nisam zadovoljan, nikada neću zažaliti što sam napisao Stranicu ljubavi." D

A Love Story begins with the predictable melodrama and sentimentality of a romance novel and ends with Zola’s trademark disgust with the hypocrisy of humanity. He does so through the lens of Rougon-Macquart cycle, which portrays social life in France’s Second Empire. His target this time is the bour

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