Since I have Balzac's Comedie Humaine, now am curious about Zola:
(From Amazon)
Émile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work,Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years.
I thought him as an author of Germinal, that's all(so wasn't interested in a dreary all male novel lol), but found out that he attempted a similar encyclopedic project as Balzac. What is with these Frenchies to attempt such massive endeavors lol, is this influenced by the Encyclopedic tradition of Diderot, etc.
OUP is publishing his works.
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After reading a bit of Freud's Civilization and its discontents, want to buy those cute Modern Library hardcover editions of Freud and Jung. Enjoyed a college psychology class, and since those are major thinkers in their own right, am pretty interested.
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