Summary
Emile Zola: Paris
Pierre Froment returned from Rome with a completely dead faith, troubled soul and saddened heart, a true spiritual ruin of a man. His last attempts to reconcile reason in himself with the faith of life's imperative, with dry, lifeless dogmas, failed. He realizes that the trip to Lourdes was folly, and the trip to Rome was real stupidity. Catholicism cannot be reconciled with the democracy required by the development of the new age. In addition to intellectual uncertainties, he is troubled by another life question: the question of love and normal, natural life. To elaborate this central and at first glance simple idea of earthly salvation and healing of Father Froment, who is brought out of the darkness of a life of nothingness by the miracle of nature and love, Zola painted a wide panorama of Paris with all its life manifestations. It showed spiritual currents, the struggle of different opinions, conflicts of material interests, various business affairs, elegant circles, literary life and the working world.
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