Audiobook: The Masterpiece by émile Zola

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Masterpiece Author: émile Zola Narrator: Leighton Pugh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Perhaps the most autobiographical of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Masterpiece is a hard, bleak and raw portrait of unrecognised artistic genius. Claude Lantier, brother to Nana and son of Gervaise, is a struggling painter who dreams of conquering Paris’s art scene with his revolutionary ‘open air’ style of painting. Discouraged and mocked, Claude retreats to the countryside with a young woman from Clermont, with whom he has fallen in love, before returning to Paris, where he continues to experience rejection at every turn. Zola’s depiction of a frustrated artist is said to have drawn heavily on the real-life experiences of Édouard Manet and Paul Cézanne, the latter of whom broke off his friendship with the author upon reading the novel.