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Title: His Excellency by Emile Zola ISBN: 9-9975211-3-7 Publisher: Chatto & Windus Pub. Date: June, 1997 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $10.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: The complete guide to political intrigue
Comment: This book succeeds magnificently as a meticulous blow-by-blow account of a lowly provincial lawyer's rise to the highest level of political power, the people behind him, his fall from grace and his final triumphant return to high office. It shows the hollowness and shabbiness behind the glittering facade of state power and the motives that drive people to go into politics - in France at least. But as the main character has no other aim than simply to wield authority over others and is perfectly willing to contradict all his previous declarations of principle to retain this authority, the book tends to leave the reader in a depressed and cynical state, and this may be why its sales were among the lowest of Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle. One might expect the main character, as the eldest son of the legitimate Rougon line, to have something more to offer, but the dryness of the subject chosen is too much for even Zola to overcome. Worth reading as a key part of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, but as a novel in its own right ..... Zola has much better things to offer.