[COMPLETE] THE FAT AND THE THIN, BOOK THREE OF THE ROUGON-MACQUART CYCLE, BY EMILE ZOLA - brrot

7A2c3Ml · Post by **7A2c3Ml** » April 1st, 2024, 12:54 pm

Section 3, up and at 'em.

7A2c3Ml · Post by **7A2c3Ml** » April 2nd, 2024, 1:55 pm

Followed by Section 4. What a comedy!

Post by **brownrottger** » April 3rd, 2024, 9:16 am

Section 3 is PL ok.

Post by **brownrottger** » April 3rd, 2024, 11:07 am

Section 4 is PL ok.

7A2c3Ml · Post by **7A2c3Ml** » April 4th, 2024, 7:59 am

Section 5, done.

With the help of the fat/thin metaphor (NOW I understand the epigraph from "Julius Caesar"!), what a ringing condemnation of the "respectable" middle class!

Post by **brownrottger** » April 5th, 2024, 5:48 am

Section 5 is PL ok. Lots of metaphors in this section all around that same theme. We don't have to guess why this book was named as it was.

7A2c3Ml · Post by **7A2c3Ml** » April 6th, 2024, 9:11 am

Section 6, ready.
And so we shift from the complacent bourgeoisie to the "revolutionaries".

Post by **brownrottger** » April 6th, 2024, 4:04 pm

Section 6 is PL ok.

7A2c3Ml · Post by **7A2c3Ml** » April 7th, 2024, 1:59 pm

Section 7

Not the best Zola. There seems to be no momentum to all this.

Post by **brownrottger** » April 8th, 2024, 9:08 am

7A2c3Ml wrote: ↑April 7th, 2024, 1:59 pm Section 7

Not the best Zola. There seems to be no momentum to all this.

Section 7 is PL ok.
I liked this section, but have, admittedly, not read much of Zola except for you! Thanks!

7A2c3Ml · Post by **7A2c3Ml** » April 9th, 2024, 8:36 am

Section 8 is posted.

To employ a Zolaesque metaphor, the fat is in the fire now!

Post by **brownrottger** » April 10th, 2024, 8:45 am

Section 8 is PL ok.

7A2c3Ml · Post by **7A2c3Ml** » April 11th, 2024, 11:39 am

Section 9.

Very odd business, ripe for some doctoral candidate's dissertation. Why this vast detour into the lives of Marjolin and Cadine? And why do we oscillate then between the two of them and Claude Lantier?

7A2c3Ml · Post by **7A2c3Ml** » April 13th, 2024, 2:57 pm

Section 10.

The outing to Nanterre is absolutely charming, and a welcome Calm Before the Storm. "Beautiful Lisa"'s (how ironic that name becomes!) near-murder of Marjolin is chilling.
I cannot make out what seems to be Zola's gross OVERemployment of the fat/thin idea. He's already laid it out more than adequately, and yet he allows Lantier to go on and on! Again, a subject rich for a dissertation.

Post by **brownrottger** » April 13th, 2024, 3:08 pm

7A2c3Ml wrote: ↑April 11th, 2024, 11:39 am Section 9.

Very odd business, ripe for some doctoral candidate's dissertation. Why this vast detour into the lives of Marjolin and Cadine? And why do we oscillate then between the two of them and Claude Lantier?

Section 9 is PL ok.