Emile Zola was a French novelist and exponent of Naturalism, as
well as a noted political liberal. Half of Zola's novels were a set
of twenty called Les Rougon-Macquart, set in France's Second
Empire. It traces two branches of a single family over a period of
generations. "The Fat and the Thin" is the third novel of Zola's
twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series.
"The Fat and the Thin" is a study of the teeming life which
surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The heroine is Lisa
Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart. She has become prosperous,
and increasingly selfish. Her brother-in-law Florent has escaped
from penal servitude in Cayenne and lives for a short time in her
house, but she becomes tired of his presence and ultimately
denounces him to the police.
As a critic put it: "It also embraces a powerful allegory, the
prose song of the eternal battle between the lean of this world and
the fat - a battle in which, as the author shows, the latter always
come off successful."
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