Zola\u27s determinism in the Mouret family

Književnost 19. stoletja je zaznamoval realizem. Émile Zola pa je to smer naredil znanstveno – v književnost je vtkal naravoslovje in s tem postavil temelje najbolj radikalni smeri realizma, naturalizmu. Nekaj let po škandaloznem eksperimentalnem romanu Thérèse Raquin je začelo izhajati njegovo življenjsko delo: cikel Rougon-Macquart, ki je sestavljen iz dvajsetih romanov, ki pripovedujejo zgodbo neke družine v času vladavine Napoleona III. V svoji diplomski nalogi se bom posvetila samo enemu delu te razvejane družine, družini Mouret. Preko analize romanov, v katerih se pojavljajo člani te družine, bom poskušala pokazati, na kakšen način so gensko obremenjeni in kako se determinizem odraža pri njih.19th century literature was marked by realism, but Émile Zola made this movement more scientific - he wove natural science into literature and created the most radical movement of realism, naturalism. A few years after the scandalous experimental novel Thérèse Raquin, his magnum opus started being published: Rougon-Macquart, a cycle of twenty novels that tell the story of a family during the reign of Napoleon III. In my dissertation I will only focus on one part of this extensive family, the Mourets. By analyzing the novels in which the members of this family appear, I will try to show how they are genetically burdened and how determinism presents itself in them