Foam. Women's happiness. Zola E.

Emil Zola is one of the pillars of world realistic literature, the leader and theoretician of the literary movement of naturalism, a passionate researcher of everyday life, passionate human rights activist and publicist who influenced the entire realistic direction of literature of the 20th century and, above all, to the school of “New Journalism”: Trumen Kapota , Volume of Wolf, Norman Meyler. Its most famous work is the epoch-making twenty-volume cycle of Rugon-Makkara, which opens the endless panorama of human vices and virtues in the scenery of the second empire. This is an encyclopedia of the life of Paris and the French province on the material of several generations of one family that gave birth to the strangest fruits - dizzying in its detail and scale of the epic, where there is everything: greed and disinterestedness, love of neighbor and animal passion, exalted aspirations and everyday routine, pride , cruelty, cynicism and violence, take -off and the fall of the strong and weak of this world.

This illustrated edition included the seventh and eighth novels of the cycle - the deep immersion in the life of the Parisian bourgeois, the panorama is comical, sometimes touching, but more often terrible. Octav Mura, Pragmatist and Lovelas, comes to Paris, where he goes up to the top, seducing women and inspiring confidence in men. He inherits and expands the ladies' happiness store - its pride, the embodiment of an effective and cynical approach to trade and advertising - but all this dazzling splendor fades when Moore meets Deniza Body, a modest saleswoman, who conquers his heart against his will. The novel "Foam" is published in a magnificent new translation.