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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Une palette intentionnelle et significative : le symbolisme des couleurs dans quelques romans zoliens

subject

colourRougon-Macquartsymbolism.Zola

description

In naturalist novels, aiming to depict the reality as faithfully as possible, colours are particularly important, and need to be carefully selected. An attentive reader of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series might notice a very special use of colours that are often charged with an important symbolic value: being not only an ornament or a detail, they frequently influence and/or express the characters’ features. The proposed classification shows some most relevant examples of Zola’s conception of colours in selected parts of the series.

10.23817/olin.50-19http://www.ifg.uni.wroc.pl/magazine/orbis-linguarum/