Doctor Pascal A New Translation
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
21.12.2024
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
318
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/2 cm
Gewicht
387 g
Übersetzt von
Liam Ferousse
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798304430517
After twenty novels and three generations, one man holds all the secrets.
Dr. Pascal Rougon has spent his life documenting his family's history-three generations of the Rougon-Macquart clan, their triumphs and tragedies, their inherited madness and ambition, the biological and social forces that have shaped their destinies. In his study in Plassans, surrounded by meticulous files that chronicle every marriage, every death, every manifestation of the family's hereditary taint, Pascal has created a scientific monument to determinism.
But science cannot explain everything.
Clotilde, his young niece and assistant, challenges Pascal's materialism with religious faith. As their intellectual debates deepen into something more intimate, Pascal discovers that love-passionate, irrational, transformative-eludes the categories and predictions of his scientific system. When Clotilde becomes pregnant with his child, Pascal must confront whether the family's tragic patterns can be broken, whether hope can triumph over heredity, whether life can renew itself despite the weight of the past.
As Pascal's health fails and his mother schemes to destroy the files that threaten the family's reputation, the doctor faces his final questions: Has his life's work revealed truth or merely imposed false order on irreducible complexity? Can one child represent redemption for three generations of suffering? And what legacy do we leave when our systems fail to capture the mystery of being human?
Émile Zola's magnificent conclusion to the twenty-novel Rougon-Macquart cycle is both summation and self-reflection, bringing his monumental saga to a close while questioning the very deterministic framework that generated it. Part scientific treatise, part philosophical meditation, part hymn to life's renewal, Doctor Pascal is Zola's farewell to his life's work-and his acknowledgment that love and mystery persist beyond any attempt to systematize human experience.
After documenting three generations of destiny, one man discovers that the future remains unwritten.
The stunning conclusion to literature's most ambitious family saga.
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