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La Débâcle: (reissue) (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola; Elinor Dorday (trans.); Robert Lethbridge (ed.) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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'My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.' --Émile ZolaThe penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Débâcle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail.La Débâcle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control, and includes some of the most powerful descriptions Zola ever wrote. Zola skillfully integrates his narrative of events and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in the history of France. Often compared to War and Peace, La Débâcle has been described as a 'seminal' work for all modern depictions of war.

Who reads La Débâcle: (reissue) (Oxford World's Classics)?

Author

Émile Zola; Elinor Dorday (trans.); Robert Lethbridge (ed.)

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198801894

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

4.5 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14