Emile Zola wrote his wonderful novel "The Masterpiece" in 1886, and its original name in French is "L'Oeuvre." In his novel, Zola depicts the general atmosphere in the City of Light, Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, an era that witnessed the fierce artistic and literary battle led by the influential school, that The battle waged by the creative youth of that era, against the advocates of academic and official art, and it expresses the tragedy of the creative person when he enters into an unequal struggle against... Its reality, and depicts the tragedy of the genius painter "Claude", the miserable architect "Dubush", and the ambitious novelist "Sandoz". The novel also depicts the story of the miserable love that brought together the hearts of Claude and Christine.
Critics believe that this novel is the most influenced by the character of Emile Zola himself, out of all his novels, especially the parts of Rogon Macar. It is said that the novelist "Sandoz" in the novel is the character of Zola himself, and he was depicted in the novel and through the character of the novelist about the conditions of the creative writers and painters in That era.