The belly of Paris

Description

In this novel the author chooses as his locale the newly built food markets of Paris. Into this extravagance of food - which Zola describes in set pieces that wet the tongue, excite the ear, and stir up the belly - he places his young hero, the half-starved Florent, who has just escaped imprisonment in Cayenne. Florent finds himself at odds with a world he now knows is unjust. Gradually he takes up with the local Socialists, who are more at home in bars than on the revolutionary streets.

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Genres

• Fiction

Other Editions

• The belly of ParisModern Library2009-01-01
• The belly of ParisSun & Moon Press1996-01-01
• The Belly of ParisAudio CassetteBlackstone Audiobooks2002-08-01
• The belly of Paris =Oxford University Press2007-01-01
• The Belly of Paris (Oxford World's Classics)PaperbackOxford University Press, USA2007-10-12