leaf of love

Elena is a widow, and her beloved daughter Jana is weak and sick. When Jana had a seizure, Doctor Henry brought her back to life. In the process of taking care of Yana, Elena and Henry also had mutual affection, but Henry is actually a married man, and their rationality did not overcome their lust for each other. In the end, Yana died of a sudden illness. Elena thought it was God's punishment for her actions, so she ended the relationship and remarried and left Paris to spend the rest of her life in endless regret and memories.

Zola was an important critical realist writer in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, as well as the leader of the naturalist literary school. This "A Leaf of Love" is different from his other works that truly reproduced the social environment and social contradictions at that time. It is "something brand new". According to Zola himself, between the publication of "Little Hotel" and "Nana", he needed an emotional "intermission", "hoping to find a kind of erotic impulse, a kind of love in a decent woman, It came suddenly and passed away without leaving a trace." We seem to be able to see a concealed Zola, a romantic Zola, but we can also see the deep power in Zola's other novels lurking in the work.