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Zola has rarely displayed the quality of humour, but it is present in the story called "The Fête at Coqueville" ("La Fête à Coqueville"). Coqueville is the name given to a very remote Norman fishing-village, set in a gorge of rocks, and almost inaccessible except from the sea. Here a sturdy population of some hundred and eighty souls, all sprung from two rival families, live in the condition of a tiny Verona, torn between contending interests. A ship laden with liqueurs is wrecked on the rocks outside, and one precious cask after another comes riding into Coqueville over the breakers. The villagers spend a glorious week of perfumed inebriety... A very amusingly and very picturesquely told story. With an essay by Edmund Gosse about "The Short Stories of Zola." Emile Zola (1840-1902) is a French novelist and critic and the founder of the Naturalist movement in literature, which he defined as "nature seen through a temperament." |
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