La Débâcle

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Emile Zola, Elinor Dorday, Robert Lethbridge (Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 2005-2013)

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English

Worlds Classics
01 July 2017

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.'

Émile Zola

The 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 skilfully 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.

By: Emile Zola
Edited by: Robert Lethbridge (Master of Fitzwilliam College Cambridge 2005-2013)
Translated by: Elinor Dorday
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Re-issue
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 406g
ISBN: 9780198801894
ISBN 10: 0198801890
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 01 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elinor Dorday studied French and Russian at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and translation at the British Institute in Paris (University of London). Robert Lethbridge was the seventh Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 2005 - 2013. He has edited Zola's L'Assommoir and Germinal for Oxford World's Classics.