'My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a
regime and the end of a world.' Emile Zola The penultimate novel of
the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject
the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of
1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his
novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for
its attention to historical detail. La Debacle seeks to explain why
the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and
revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing
their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they
cannot control, and includes some of the most powerful descriptions
Zola ever wrote. Zola skilfully integrates his narrative of events
and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest
account of this tragic chapter in the history of France. Often
compared to War and Peace, La Debacle has been described as a
'seminal' work for all modern depictions of war.
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