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The Experimental Novel (Paperback)
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The Experimental Novel (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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List price R161
Loot Price R140
Discovery Miles 1 400
You Save R21 (13%)
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The Experimental Novel (1880) is an essay by French author Emile
Zola. Written at the height of his career as a leading proponent of
Naturalism, The Experimental Novel serves to illuminate the
author's approach to the practice and purpose of writing while
advocating for a revolution of style among artists of his era. Read
as a reaction against Romanticism, The Experimental Novel proves a
convincing counterpoint to the excesses and failures of nineteenth
century art, illustrating the need for literature to draw
inspiration from other sources of human understanding-such as
science, history, and the social sciences-in order to effectively
explore the themes of everyday life. "The return to nature, the
naturalistic evolution which marks the century, drives little by
little all the manifestation of human intelligence into the same
scientific path. Only the idea of a literature governed by science
is doubtless a surprise, until explained with precision and
understood. It seems to me necessary, then, to say briefly and to
the point what I understand by the experimental novel." Rather than
imitate reality, a writer must attempt a scientific investigation
of the nature of everyday life. For Zola, plot must be secondary to
character, and character must be subject to the laws and
limitations of a particular society. As a writer interested in the
relationships between rich and poor, citizen and state, culture and
economy, and personal and public life, Zola found it necessary to
write experimental fiction-literally, fiction which experiments
with its object of inquiry. Blending science and art, he
revolutionized not only the idea of what a novel is and can do, but
the responsibility of the artist to society. The Experimental Novel
is a masterful essay for readers interested in Zola's work and in
the history and philosophy of literature. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Emile Zola's The Experimental Novel is a classic work of French
literature reimagined for modern readers.
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