The poet would be the artist in phrases whose crafting, as in the racecourse scene in Nana or during the descriptions on the laundry in L'Assommoir or in many passages of La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret, Le Ventre de Paris and La Curée, vies with the colourful impressionistic approaches of Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The scientist is a beli