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Title: The Sin of Abbé Mouret
Condition: New
EAN: 9780198736639
ISBN: 9780198736639
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 11/05/2017
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 128mm
Item Width: 19mm
Author: Emile Zola
Translator: Valerie Minogue
Contributor: Valerie Minogue (Translated by)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198736630
Description: 'I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.'The Sin of Abbé Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of constant prayer, but his neglect of all physical needs leads to serious illness, followed by amnesia. No longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love with his nurse Albine. Together, like a latter-day Adam and Eve, they roam through an Eden-like garden called the 'Paradou', seeking a forbidden tree in whose shade they will make love. Zola memorably shows their gradual awakening to sexuality, and his poetic descriptions of the luxuriant and beautiful Paradou create a lyrical celebration of Nature. When Serge regains his memory and recalls his priestly vows, anguish inevitably follows.The whole story, with its numerous biblical parallels, becomes a poetic reworking of the Fall of Man and a questioning of the very meaning of innocence and sin. Zola explores the conflict between Church and Nature, the sterility of the Church and the fertility of Nature. This new translation includes a wide-ranging and helpful introduction and explanatory notes.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Fiction
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics
Topic: Classic Fiction
Item Weight: 246g
Release Year: 2017

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