Monday, July 2, 2007

Zola's La Terre

Zola is at his best describing humanity's lowest moments -- assault, disloyalty, poverty. Otherwise, he is a run of the mill writer, and is particularly uneven. I read the contemporaneous reviews of La Terre, and we are in agreement. And I like a good pastoral -- this one is just a melodrama with long scenes of sunrise and wind on wheat fields. So much for that.

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