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L'Ĺ’uvre
L'Œuvre ("The Masterpiece") was an 1886 novel by Émile Zola (part of his twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart) that was a lightly fictionalized account of his childhood friendship with the painter Paul Cézanne, as the fictional painter "Claude Lantier" who fails in his life's work to create a work of art that would survive the ages. Despite great talent, Lantier is unable to create his masterpiece; Zola describes the failure as the result of Lantier's overambitious goal, as well as a hereditary "lesion of the eye" that plagues him.
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