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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20020511
Author:Roderick Conway Morris

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Emile Zola's ''L'Oeuvre'' of 1886 stirred up a tremendous furor in the French art scene, with every second artist in Paris seeing himself or some friend or enemy in one character or another, even causing Paul Cezanne to break off relations with the author, whom he had known since childhood.But when Vincent Van Gogh seemed to follow the trajectory of Zola's antihero, Claude Lantier, descending into despair, madness and finally committing suicide, real life seemed to be imitating fiction. Camille Pissarro had already identified his former friend Paul Gauguin with Zola's ...

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