Abstract:A close reading of Émile Zola's L'Œuvre, whose protagonist is modeled on his childhood friend, Paul Cézanne, reveals that the novel, long held responsible for the acute demise of their relationship, is rather an unwitting chronicle of its slow decline. Considered alongside the Cézanne-Zola correspondence and set in the context of historical and biographical data, L'Œuvre Illuminates a complex and important relationship, bringing into sharp focus the tension between the idealizing mirroring that promotes creativity and the competitive aggression that threatens it.

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名副其实的谋杀：埃米尔·左拉、他的朋友保罗·塞尚和他的书 L'Œuvre

摘要：仔细阅读埃米尔·佐拉 (Émile Zola) 的《L'Œuvre》，其主人公以他儿时的朋友保罗·塞尚 (Paul Cézanne) 为蓝本，会发现这部小说长期以来一直对他们的关系急剧消亡负有责任，但却是一部在不知不觉中慢慢衰落的编年史。与塞尚-左拉的通信一起考虑，并以历史和传记数据为背景，L'Œuvre 阐明了一种复杂而重要的关系，突出了促进创造力的理想化镜像与威胁创造力的竞争性侵略之间的紧张关系。