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Title	:	The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart #3)
Author	:	Émile Zola
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 660 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2006 by Green Integer (first published 1873)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. Food and Drink. Food. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. 19th Century. Historical. Historical Fiction

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Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and bourgeois flats. Living with his brother's family in the newly rebuilt Les Halles market, Florent is soon caught up in a dangerous maelstrom of food and politics. Amid intrigue among the market's sellers—the fishmonger, the charcutiere, the fruit girl, and the cheese vendor—and the glorious culinary bounty of their labors, we see the dramatic difference between "fat and thin" (the rich and the poor) and how the widening gulf between them strains a city to the breaking point.

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Original Title:	Le Ventre de Paris
ISBN:	1933382724 (ISBN13: 9781933382722)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Les Rougon-Macquart #3, Les Rougon-Macquart #11
Characters:	Claude Lantier, Lisa Quenu

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Respectable people... what bastards!

I read in another review that The Belly of Paris was Anthony Bourdains favourite novel. One can see why. The whole novel is permeated with the sounds and, particularly, the smells of fish, meat, blood and earthy vegetables. Its nourishment in the cruder sense of existence. Zola takes on this setting to transform his sensory novel in a political statement against tyranny. I start to detect a trend in the Rougon-Macquart: how injustice at the highest level of politics (beginning, in this case,

The cover of this novel should come with a warning. Well, may be not even just a warning, for it should be sold with a calorie counter. I am afraid I may have put on several kilos while reading this. Perhaps it would be advisable to read it while running on the treadmill. The lush descriptions of succulent food could well activate and stimulate the production of a peculiar kind of literary enzymes which multiply by ten the energy provided by ingested food if it has been deliciously described.

How do I begin to describe the feelings this book left me. *BURP*I felt as though I gorged myself on 100 pounds of chocolate bacon and swallowed it down with 10 gallons of SICKLY sweet wine and afterwards swallowed an entire Tiramisu cake in one bite. It left me feeling fully satiated and yet I am still starving to discover more about the mysterious world of Old Paris. I had to work at finishing this novel, as I felt my belly was full to the brim of descriptions of food and yet I couldnt peel

Zola gives us both sides of the famous food markets in Paris, the sublime to the disgusting, and sometimes in the space of one sentence of his flowing prose. The descriptive passages are so visual they are like viewing paintings. At times they seem to almost literally soar: at the start of one chapter I felt as if I were flying above the rooftops of the city. The vendors seem to become what they sell, from fish to flowers. I was reminded of Dickens at several points, and Balzac at another.As

The Belly of Pairs represents a splendid artistic development in the French novel. Combining the down and out urchin tales of Hugo and Sue, with Zola's own brand of reportage.It is easy to forget how teeming the streets are throughout history. Especially in Paris at this time. Legions of gossip peddlers, flower sellers, ragamuffins, illicit performers, and an infinite array of characters call the streets their home.Putting some of the tenants of Impressionism into his work, Zola's writing is

Pauvre Florent. A falsely accused escapee from French Guiana arrives home a much changed man - to a much changed Paris. It's Zola's third book and easy to see how this laid the foundation for his future works of art. While this book in no way compares to Nana, L'Assomoir, Germinal, or his other masterpieces, it is loaded with wonderful symbolism related to food and justice. Les Halles itself represents the gastronomic center of Europe, therefore the world. A character's description of local