Abbe Mouret's Transgression

Abbe Mouret''s Transgression Emile Zola - "Abbé Mouret''s Transgression" (La Faute de l''Abbé Mouret), written in 1874, is perhaps the most powerful and poetic of all Zola''s tales; it is that in which fantasy bears the greatest part, and in which "naturalisme" for a while disappears. The opening chapters describe a profligate and almost pagan village in Provence, and here "naturalisme" is at home...