The belly of Paris

In this novel the author chooses as his locale the newly built food markets of Paris. Into this extravagance of food - which Zola describes in set pieces that wet the tongue, excite the ear, and stir up the belly - he places his young hero, the half-starved Florent, who has just escaped imprisonment in Cayenne. Florent finds himself at odds with a world he now knows is unjust. Gradually he takes up with the local Socialists, who are more at home in bars than on the revolutionary streets.

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

Oxford University Press, USA

מהדורות

5

עמודים

320

ISBN

9780192806338

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata