His Masterpiece
| By: | Emile Zola |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Print ISBN: | 9781420935141.0 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781625584557 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2012 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The Masterpiece is a highly fictionalized account of Zola's friendship with the painter Paul Cézanne. Zola and Cézanne grew up together in Aix-en-Provence, the model for Zola's Plassans, where Claude Lantier is born and receives his education. Like Cézanne, Claude Lantier is a revolutionary artist whose work is misunderstood by an art-going public hidebound by traditional subjects, techniques, and representations. Zola's self-portrait can be seen in the character of the novelist Pierre Sandoz.