"1800 - 1899" . . "Impressionist artists France Paris Fiction." . . "University of Michigan Press." . . "Intellectual life." . . "Impressionist artists." . . . . "France" . . "Paris (France)" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "This is the most autobiographical of the 20 novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides an insight into his friendship with Cezanne and presents an account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence."@en . . "The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his model and wife Christine and their deformed child Jacques - is sacrificed on the altar of Art. The Masterpiece is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it provides a unique insight into his career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemia world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despit the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public."@en . . . . . . "Masterpiece" . . . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . "The Master Piece"@en . . . . . . . . "Rougon-Macquart"@en . "The Masterpiece"@en . "Powieść francuska" . . "The master piece"@en . . . . . "Fiction in translation"@en . "Autobiographical fiction" . "Autobiographical fiction"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Master piece"@en . "The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides a unique insight into Zola's career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despite the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public." . . . . "The masterpiece[Texte imprimé]" . "Classic fiction (pre c 1945)"@en . . . . "History" . . . . . . . . "Translations"@en . . "The masterpiece"@en . "The masterpiece" . . . . . .