The Belly of Paris
the Belly of Paris is a novel of Emile Zola published in 1873, the third of the series Rougon-Macquart .
The action essentially occurs to the central Halles from Paris, built by Victor Baltard between 1854 and 1870, enormous building with metal structure in which the walls are replaced by panes, the greatest architectural innovation of the Second Empire. Fascinated by the Markets, Zola in fact in its novel a kind of monster, like will be later the department store in With the Happiness of the Ladies , the still in the Pole-axe or the engine in the human Animal .
The family members of Rougon-Macquart do not play a crucial role in the novel: LISA Macquart, one of the sisters of Gervaise (see the Pole-axe ), married to one named Quenu, is a porkbutcher there; one also sees appearing his daughter, Pauline Quenu, who will be the heroin of the Love of life , and especially Claude Lantier, young painter, future hero of the novel Work .
history
The main character names Florent, half-brother of Quenu. Stopped by error following the Coup d'etat of December 2nd, 1851, it was off-set with the bagne of Cayenne in Guyana, from which it succeeded in escaping. It arrives at Paris in 1858, and obtains a place of inspector to the house of the tide, inside the Markets. Badly at ease in the middle of the arguments of the harengères, Florent dreams of a better world, and animates a secret small firm. Denounced by LISA, its own sister-in-law, it will be stopped and returned to the bagne, for the greatest joy of the district where the fatty , symbolized by Quenu, badly supported the intrusion and criticisms of the thin , represented by Florent and Claude Lantier.
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