{"title":"Émile Zola’s Climate History of the Second Empire","authors":"Johannes Ungelenk","doi":"10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3181","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolEl articulo hace una lectura del ciclo de novelas “Les Rougon-Macquart” de Emile Zola y sostiene la tesis de que el sujeto al que describe, el Segundo Imperio, puede leerse como un clima en proceso de calentamiento que se dirige hacia una catastrofe medioambiental. La afinidad de Zola con la nocion de clima se ve expuesta al conectarla con su uso poetologico del concepto de ‘milieu’, inspirado en Hippolyte Taine. El articulo ofrece una lectura en profundidad de ciertos pasajes de las novelas “Rougon-Macquart” para mostrar las diferencias climaticas entre el “viejo” y el “nuevo Paris”, y el proceso de calentamiento que caracteriza el Segundo Imperio. El gran almacen de Octave Mouret es analizado, en particular, bajo el concepto de “meteorotopos” propuesto en el articulo: un lugar de condiciones climaticas intensificadas, un lugar de interaccion aumentada entre actores humanos y no-humanos. El almacen es uno de varios espacios en el ciclo de novelas en los que ya se senala la catastrofe climatica ‘global’ del Paris en llamas, momento en que se hunde el Segundo Imperio. EnglishThis article looks at Emile Zola’s novel cycle “Les Rougon-Macquart” and argues that it describes its subject, the Second Empire, as a warming climate tending toward climate catastrophe. Zola’s affinity to the notion of climate is shown to be linked to his poetic employment of the concept of ‘milieu,’ inspired by Hippolyte Taine. Close readings of selected passages from the “Rougon-Macquart” are used to work out the climatic difference between ‘the old’ and ‘the new Paris,’ and the process of warming that characterises the Second Empire. Octave Mouret’s department store holds a special place in the article, as it is analysed through what the article suggests calling a ‘meteorotopos’: a location of intensified climatic conditions that accounts for an increased interaction between human and non-human actors. The department store is also one of the many sites in the novel cycle that locally prefigure the ‘global’ climate catastrophe of Paris burning, in which the Second Empire perishes.","PeriodicalId":222311,"journal":{"name":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European journal of literature, culture and the environment","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3181","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanolEl articulo hace una lectura del ciclo de novelas “Les Rougon-Macquart” de Emile Zola y sostiene la tesis de que el sujeto al que describe, el Segundo Imperio, puede leerse como un clima en proceso de calentamiento que se dirige hacia una catastrofe medioambiental. La afinidad de Zola con la nocion de clima se ve expuesta al conectarla con su uso poetologico del concepto de ‘milieu’, inspirado en Hippolyte Taine. El articulo ofrece una lectura en profundidad de ciertos pasajes de las novelas “Rougon-Macquart” para mostrar las diferencias climaticas entre el “viejo” y el “nuevo Paris”, y el proceso de calentamiento que caracteriza el Segundo Imperio. El gran almacen de Octave Mouret es analizado, en particular, bajo el concepto de “meteorotopos” propuesto en el articulo: un lugar de condiciones climaticas intensificadas, un lugar de interaccion aumentada entre actores humanos y no-humanos. El almacen es uno de varios espacios en el ciclo de novelas en los que ya se senala la catastrofe climatica ‘global’ del Paris en llamas, momento en que se hunde el Segundo Imperio. EnglishThis article looks at Emile Zola’s novel cycle “Les Rougon-Macquart” and argues that it describes its subject, the Second Empire, as a warming climate tending toward climate catastrophe. Zola’s affinity to the notion of climate is shown to be linked to his poetic employment of the concept of ‘milieu,’ inspired by Hippolyte Taine. Close readings of selected passages from the “Rougon-Macquart” are used to work out the climatic difference between ‘the old’ and ‘the new Paris,’ and the process of warming that characterises the Second Empire. Octave Mouret’s department store holds a special place in the article, as it is analysed through what the article suggests calling a ‘meteorotopos’: a location of intensified climatic conditions that accounts for an increased interaction between human and non-human actors. The department store is also one of the many sites in the novel cycle that locally prefigure the ‘global’ climate catastrophe of Paris burning, in which the Second Empire perishes.
这篇文章阅读了埃米尔·左拉的系列小说《Les rougonmacquart》,并坚持认为它所描述的主题,第二帝国,可以被解读为气候变暖,走向环境灾难。左拉对气候的亲和力与他对“环境”概念的诗意运用相联系,受到希波吕特·泰恩的启发。本文深入阅读了《鲁根-麦夸特》小说中的某些段落,以展示“旧”和“新巴黎”之间的气候差异,以及第二帝国的变暖过程。本文分析了Octave Mouret的大仓库,特别是在文章中提出的“气象地形”概念下:一个气候条件加剧的地方,一个人类和非人类行为者之间互动增加的地方。El almacen是小说系列中的几个空间之一,在这些空间中,巴黎的“全球”气候灾难已经在燃烧,这是第二帝国崩溃的时刻。这篇文章回顾了埃米尔·左拉的小说循环“Les rougonmacquart”,并声称它将其主题“第二帝国”描述为气候变暖倾向于气候灾难。= =地理= =根据美国人口普查,这个县的面积为,其中土地面积为,其中土地面积为。Close读物of selected passages from the Rougon-Macquart”是用来to work out the climatic difference between‘the old and new巴黎,“and the process of warming characterises第二帝国。Octave Mouret的百货商店在这篇文章中占据了一个特殊的位置,因为这篇文章分析了所谓的“气象地形”:气候条件加剧的位置,导致人类和非人类行为者之间的互动增加。The department store is one of The许多sites in The初期周期that locally借以‘全球气候灾难of Paris燃烧,in which The Second帝国perishes。