The Joy Of Life La Joie De Vivre

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'La Joie de Vivre, ' here translated as 'The Joy of Life, ' was written by M. Zola in 1883, partly at his country house at Médan, and partly at Bénodet, a little seaside place in Brit-tany. The scene of the story is laid, however, on the coast of the neighbouring province of Normandy, between the mo-uth of the Orne and the rocks of Grandcamp, where the aut-hor had sojourned, more than once, in previous years. The title selected by him for this book is to be taken in an ironi-cal or sarcastic sense. There is no joy at all in the lives of the characters whom he portrays in it. The story of the 'hero' is one of mental weakness, poisoned by a constantly recurring fear of death; whilst that of his father is one of intense phy-sical suffering, blended with an eager desire to continue li-ving, even at the cost of yet greater torture. Again, the story of the heroine is one of blighted affections, the wrecking of all which might have made her life worth living. And there is a great deal of truth in the various pictures of human exis-tence which are thus presented to us; however much some people, in their egregious vanity, may recoil from the idea that life and love and talent and glory are all very poor and paltry things.

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