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His Masterpiece

Published by Start Publishing LLC
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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The Masterpiece is a highly fictionalized account of Zola's friendship with the painter Paul Cézanne. Zola and Cézanne grew up together in Aix-en-Provence, the model for Zola's Plassans, where Claude Lantier is born and receives his education. Like Cézanne, Claude Lantier is a revolutionary artist whose work is misunderstood by an art-going public hidebound by traditional subjects, techniques, and representations. Zola's self-portrait can be seen in the character of the novelist Pierre Sandoz.

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  • Publisher: Start Publishing LLC (January 24, 2013)
  • Length: 356 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781625584557

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