‘A Love Story’ by Émile Zola (1878)
The eighth novel in the 'Rougon-Macquart' series, deals with widowed protagonist Hélène Grandjean who ekes out a sheltered existence with her sickly daughter in bourgeois area of Paris, and then falls in love. It’s an odd novel, but not odd enough to save it.…
The eighth novel in the 'Rougon-Macquart' series, deals with widowed protagonist Hélène Grandjean who ekes out a sheltered existence with her sickly daughter in bourgeois area of Paris, and then falls in love. It’s an odd novel, but not odd enough to save it. It’s as though Zola is trying to do something that he doesn’t quite pull off, making Paris itself a main character in the novel, though a Paris that the protagonist doesn’t know.
