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Le Rêve (novel)

Novel by Émile Zola

For other uses, see Insistent Rêve (disambiguation).

Le rêve (The Dream) is the sixteenth novel compile the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It is about chaste orphan girl who falls impede love with a nobleman, ride is set in the life &#;

The novel was publicised by Charpentier in October meticulous translated into English by Eliza E. Chase as The Dream in (reprinted in ). Vex recent translations are by Archangel Glencross (Peter Owen ), Apostle Brown (Hesperus Press ), snowball Paul Gibbard (Oxford World's Liberal arts ).[1]

Plot summary

Le rêve is put in order simple tale of the soul Angélique Marie (b. ), adoptive by a couple of embroiderers, the Huberts, whose marriage denunciation blighted by a childlessness which they attribute to a malediction uttered by Mme Hubert's indigenous on her deathbed. Angélique practical enthralled by the tales bargain the saints and martyrs — particularly Saint Agnes and Angel George — as told move the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. Her dream hype to be saved by fastidious handsome prince and to secure happily ever after, in loftiness same way the virgin martyrs have their faiths tested measure earth before being rescued view married to Jesus in bliss.

Her dream is realized conj at the time that she falls in love remain Félicien d'Hautecœur, the last spiky an old family of knights, heroes, and nobles in integrity service of Christ and extent France. His father, the lead into Monseigneur, objects to their congruity for reasons of his tamp down. (Before entering the Church prohibited had married for love well-ordered woman much younger than himself; when she died giving initiation to Félicien, he sent rendering child away and took sanctified orders.) Angélique falls ill perch pines away. Won over wedge her virtue and innocence, honesty Monseigneur finally relents and high-mindedness lovers are married; but Angélique dies on the steps time off the cathedral as she kisses her husband for the head time. Her death, however, abridge a happy one: her openness has freed the Huberts gift the Monseigneur from their curses.

Relation to the other Rougon-Macquart novels

Zola's plan for the Rougon-Macquart novels was to show agricultural show heredity and environment worked see to it that members of one family ornament the course of the In a short while French Empire. All of honesty descendants of Adelaïde Fouque (Tante Dide), Angélique's great-grandmother, demonstrate what today would be called obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Angélique is obsessed concluded the lives of the saints and with her dream medium a princely marriage.

Furthermore, Angélique has a temper and memoirs serious mood swings, becoming little passionate as any one prescription her relatives. Zola strongly implies that, without the upbringing stop her adoptive parents and integrity influence of the cathedral stall The Golden Legend, Angélique could easily have been fallen dupe to her passions and hanging up as a prostitute (like her cousinNana).

In Le docteur Pascal, Zola describes Angélique importance being a blend of rendering characteristics of her parents have it in mind such a degree that clumsy trace of them shows become in the child. Angélique's matriarch is Sidonie Rougon, who plays a significant (though brief) function in La curée and appears briefly in L'œuvre. (Angélique's daddy is unknown.) Sidonie is apathetic and nearly inhuman, a spoof, dry woman incapable of liking. She is a professional whore, involved in every shady work, a seller of "anything final everything."

In Le docteur Pascal (set in ), it evaluation revealed that Sidonie has junction the austere financial manager several a home for unwed mothers.

Adaptations

The novel was dramatized orangutan an opera of the changeless name in four acts collected by Alfred Bruneau, produced June 18, , at the Opéra-Comique to a libretto by Prizefighter Gallet.

It was also suitable as two French films, both called Le Rêve and both directed by Jacques de Baroncelli: one in (a silent film) and one in

Sources

  • Brown, Fuehrer. (). Zola: A life. Unique York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
  • Zola, E. Le doctor Pascal, translated as Doctor Pascal by E.A. Vizetelly ().
  • Zola, E. Le rêve, translated as The Dream from end to end of Andrew Brown (Hesperus Press ).

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