The Belly of Paris

14 hrs. 4 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Émile Zola

Narrator Konstantin Dneprovsky

“The Belly of Paris” is Émile Zola’s third novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, published in 1873. Zola’s plan was to show, across the series of novels, how heredity and the surrounding environment affected members of one family during the years of the Second Empire—the period of Napoleon III’s dictatorship. The Paris Central Market. A huge, fantastic, luxurious kingdom of gluttony. Here quick-witted beauties of the fishmongers rule and compete, little urchins grow up and their giggling girlfriends, fortunes are made and crushed, and gossip is both spread and savored with relish; politics is debated in taverns. It is here that a young revolutionary Florent—an escaped convict who fled from hard labor and got lost in the endless labyrinth of Paris streets—tries to hide from the police. Once he was a school teacher. In 1851, during the unrest that accompanied the state coup on December 2, he was mistakenly taken for an opponent of the new regime and sentenced. But will “The Belly of Paris” shelter him?

1. The Fortune of the Rougons (narrated by Alexey Dyakov) 1. The Fortune of the Rougons (narrated by Konstantin Dneprovsky) 1. The Fortune of the Rougons (narrated by Elena Shemet) 2. La Curée (The Kill) (narrated by Inna Sytnik) 2. La Curée (The Kill) (narrated by Konstantin Dneprovsky) 3. The Belly of Paris (narrated by Larisa Tretyakova) 3. The Belly of Paris 3. The Belly of Paris (narrated by Pavel Lomakin) 3. The Belly of Paris (narrated by Vsevolod Kuznetsov) 4. The Conquest of Plassans (narrated by Konstantin Dneprovsky) 5. The Sin of Father Mouret (narrated by Arkady Bukhmin) 5. The Sin of Father Mouret (narrated by Alina Ray) 5. The Sin of Abbé Mouret (narrated by Konstantin Dneprovsky) 6. His Excellency Eugene Rougon (narrated by Valery Tolkov) 7. L'Assommoir (narrated by Veronika Oboyanka) 7. The Trap (narrated by Margarita Ivanova) 8. A Love Episode (narrated by Oleg Martyanov) 8. A Love Episode (narrated by Natalya Frolova) 9. Nana (narrated by Nikolay Orlovsky) 9. Nana (narrated by Natalya Pervina) 9. Nana (narrated by Irina Vorobyova) 10. Pot Luck (narrated by Natalya Domeretskaya) 11. The Ladies' Paradise (narrated by Olga Zyuzina) 11. The Ladies' Paradise (narrated by Yuliya Tarkhova) 11. The Ladies' Paradise (narrated by Veronika Oboyanka) 12. The Joy of Life (narrated by Yuliya Tarkhova) 12. The Joys of Life (narrated by Sergey Kazakov) 13. Germinal (narrated by Yury Zaborovsky) 13. Germinal (narrated by Natalya Pervina) 13. Germinal (narrated by Konstantin Dneprovsky) 13. Germinal (narrated by Arkady Bukhmin) 14. The Masterpiece (narrated by Tatyana Telegina) 14. The Masterpiece (narrated by Olga Andreeva) 14. The Masterpiece (narrated by Ivan Zabelin) 15. Earth (narrated by Valery Tolkov) 16. The Dream (narrated by Irina Efremova, Olga Evdokimova) 17. The Beast Within (narrated by Arkady Bukhmin) 17. The Beast Within (narrated by Valery Tolkov) 18. Money (narrated by Yury Zaborovsky) 18. Money (narrated by Yaroslav Lukashev) 18. Money (narrated by Olga Andreeva) 18. Money (narrated by Konstantin Dneprovsky) 19. The Debacle (narrated by Ilya Akintyev) 20. Doctor Pascal (narrated by Vladislav Pogiba) La Bête humaine (narrated by Roman Popov) The Dream (narrated by Olga Evdokimova)

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