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The story of an artist trying to fulfil his talent. It began brilliantly. The opening was fabulous. A girl arrives in Paris from the provinces, but her train is delayed so there is no one at the station to meet her. She gets caught in a thunderstorm and shelters in a doorway. Here she meets Claude, the artist who offers to put her up for the night in his garret. Thus begins their great love which is poignantly evoked as is Claude's relationship with his art. Half way through as Claude struggles more and more to realize his potential the novel begins to get a bit repetitive. Zola's friends Cezanne and Monet both refused to have anything more to do with him after reading the novel.