Les Rougon‐Macquart

Japanese: ルーゴン･マッカール（英語表記）Les Rougon‐Macquart

This is a series of works that is the masterpiece of the naturalist novelist Emile Zola. It has the subtitle "The Natural and Social History of a Family during the Second Empire" and consists of 20 volumes. It is said that Zola conceived the idea for this series in 1868, when he was 28 years old, and he originally planned to have a total of 10 volumes. However, after publishing the first volume, "The Flourishing House of Rougon," in 1871, his ideas gradually expanded, and he continued to write about one volume a year, until he published the final volume in 1893, when he was 53 years old. The titles from the second volume onwards, in order, are: "The Feast," "The Belly of Paris," "The Conquest of Plassins," "The Sin of Abbot Mouret," "Himself Eugène Rougon," "The Tavern," "A Page of Love," "Nana," "Hodgepodge," "The Bonheur des Dames," "Joie de Vivre," "Germinal," "Production," "The Earth," "The Dream," "The Beast-man," "Money," "Destruction," and "Doctor Pascal."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

自然主義の小説家エミール･ゾラの代表作シリーズ。〈第二帝政期におけるある一族の自然的･社会的歴史〉という副題をもち，全20巻より成る。この構想を立てたのは1868年，ゾラ28歳のころといわれ，最初は全10巻の予定であった。しかし，第1巻《ルーゴン家の繁栄》を71年に出して以来，彼の構想はしだいにふくらみ，以後ほぼ1年に1巻の調子で書きつづけ，最終巻を出したのは93年，53歳のときであった。第2巻以後の表題を順に列記すると，《饗宴》《パリの腹》《プラサンの征服》《ムーレ師の罪》《ウジェーヌ･ルーゴン閣下》《居酒屋》《愛の一頁》《ナナ》《ごった煮》《ボヌール･デ･ダーム百貨店》《生きる喜び》《ジェルミナール》《制作》《大地》《夢》《獣人》《金銭》《壊滅》そして《パスカル博士》。

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