The Selected Works of Emile Zola【電子書籍】[ Emile Zola ]

＜p＞BEFORE perusing this work, it is as well that the reader should understand M. Zola's aim in writing it, and his viewsーas distinct from those of his charactersーupon Lourdes, its Grotto, and its cures. A short time before the book appeared M. Zola was interviewed upon the subject by his friend and biographer, Mr. Robert H. Sherard, to whom he spoke as follows: "'Lourdes' came to be written by mere accident. In 1891 I happened to be travelling for my pleasure, with my wife, in the Basque country and by the Pyrenees, and being in the neighbourhood of Lourdes, included it in my tour. I spent fifteen days there, and was greatly struck by what I saw, and it then occurred to me that there was material here for just the sort of novel that I like to writeーa novel in which great masses of men can be shown in motionーun grand mouvement de fouleーa novel the subject of which stirred up my philosophical ideas. "It was too late then to study the question, for I had visited Lourdes late in September,．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る