La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret
1875 novel by Émile Zola / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 1970 film adaptation, see The Demise of Father Mouret.
La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875) is the fifth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific events at the end of La Conquête de Plassans, focussing this time on a remote Provençal backwater village.[1]
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Author | Émile Zola |
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Language | French |
Series | Les Rougon-Macquart |
Genre | Novel |
Publication date | 1875 |
Publication place | France |
Media type | Print (Serial, Hardback & Paperback) |
Preceded by | Au Bonheur des Dames |
Followed by | Une page d'amour |
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Unusually for Zola, the novel contains very few characters and locations, and its use of amnesia as a plot device gives it an unusually fantastical tone.[citation needed]